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Work Your Body: Options for People Who are HIV-Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made for GMHC under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. Gregg Bordowitz, Alisa…
Who Do you Listen To? Sex in the Age of AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
WAVE: Self Portraits
Short videos made as part of the WAVE project which worked in an AIDS video collective to tell stories of urban women of color impacted by AIDS. The project is the subject of the final auto-ethnographic chapter of my disseration, AIDS TV. Digitized…
Voices from the Front
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friends and compatriots in the AIDS activist video collective, Testing the Limits, many of who were in the Whitney ISP program before me.
Viva Eu (Long Live Me)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." This was an important intervention at the time bringing a Latina voice and perspective to American AIDS video activism.
Video Remains
An experimental video made from the real-time video that I shot with my best friend, James Robert Lamb, as he was dying from AIDS in 1991.
Vida
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. My friend and colleague and fellow AIDS video activist, Tom Kalin, worked as a producer on the films made by AIDS Films. I write about him and them in an early essay on AIDS…
Tags: 1989, AIDS, Latin/x, Lourdes Portillo, safe sex, Vida, woman filmmaker
Thinking About Death
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV, made for GMHC Living with AIDS Show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto.
Tags: 1991, activist video, AIDS, documentary, Gregg Bordowitz, PWA, Thinking About Death
The Second Epidemic
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Amber was my friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker. We were working on representing women and AIDS early in the life of the epidemic within a feminist and…
The Safer Sex Shorts
Made for activist safer sex education to diverse groups by GMHC's media department and led by Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz. Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1989, activist video, AIDS, gay and lesbian, GMHC, sefer sex, sexuality, The Safer Sex Shorts
The Attendant
Gift from filmmaker. Isaac is a friend and colleague. His work on AIDS and black queer representation has been formative to my own production and thinking. I taught this. The poster from the film was used as set decor in The Watermelon Woman.
Tags: 1993, AIDS, black, experimental, Isaac Julien, queer, sexuality, The Attendant
Testing the Limits Part 1 and 2
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made by my friend, colleagues, and fellow AIDS video activists in this important collective.
Target City Hall & Pride
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made by DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, that made a critical body of AIDS activist video. Many of the people represented in this collection were in…
Target Bush
Gift from filmmaker for my doctoral research. DIVA TV made great, funny, powerful, urgent films as a video collective within ACT UP.
Tags: 1991, activist video, AIDS, collective, Diva TV, revolutionary, Target Bush
Simple Courage
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1992, AIDS, documentary, PWA, Simple Courage, Stephanie Castillo
Silverlake Life: The View From Here
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. I continue to teach and learn from this film, a compelling use of the home video camera, and self-reflexive gaze to understand AIDS, love, and death.
Silence=Death
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Seriously Fresh
For research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. My friend and colleague and fellow AIDS video activist, Tom Kalin, worked as a producer on the films made by AIDS Films. I write about him and them in an early essay on AIDS video,…
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options was made within a public program for young mothers. Activist music videos were made with Alexandra Juhasz, Brian Goldfarb, and the youth group for young mothers trying to finish high school.The songs…
Safer Sister; Reunion; (An)other Love Story; The Forgotten People: Latinas and AIDS Shadows
Composite reel of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Dubs of tapes I made to review. Not sure what the last one is.
Safer and Sexier: A College Students' Guide to Safer Sex
I made this video as an extracurricular activist project with students at Swarthmore College. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. It's graphic sexual imagery, and de-coupling of sex and love, led to some protests by Christians, but…
Safe is Desire
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
Tags: 1993, AIDS, Debi Sundahl, lesbian, Nan Kinney, safe AIDS, Safe is Desire, safe sex, sexuality, woman filmmaker
PWA Power
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC.
Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1990, activist video, AIDS, documentary, Positive, PWA, Rosa von Praunheim
Playing it Safe (intro V. Bertinelli): Protections: What Every Woman Needs to Know
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." One of those mainstream productions that were not partiuclarly helpful, inspiring AIDS activist video about and by women.
Plagued Series Compile (Episodes 3 & 4)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Plagued Series Compilation (Epis. 1 & 2)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV from distributor.
Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Features stellar safer sex education as activism and community building. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Cheryl and I worked with Ellen to revisit the…
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Mildred Pearson: When You Love A Person
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.A portrait of a mother taking care of her son who has been diagnosed with AIDS. Voiceover interview recorded on May 19th, 1988 at the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force in honor of…
Living With A Legacy (Teens With HIV)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Living Proof
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1994, activist video, AIDS, Kermit Cole, Living Proof, PWAs
Like a Prayer
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
Tags: 1991, activist video, AIDS, collective, DIVA, documentary, Like a Prayer
Kecia: Words to Live By; Pediatric Aids: A Time of Crisis
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
It Is What It Is
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made for GMHC's Living with AIDS show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto.
Tags: 1993, activist video, AIDS, Gregg Bordowitz, It is What It is, youth
Hope for A New Tomorrow: Families with AIDS, The Third Decade
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
HIV TV
My second attempt at an AIDS video support group, sponsored by the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, and working with Sharon Penceal at an AIDS support group at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. I write about the strengths and failures of this video in AIDS TV.
Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA
Compilation of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV." DIVA TV, an activist colleactive working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video that complimented my own efforts, which were…
Fighting for Our Lives
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Elspeth Kydd Vol. 3 (Short Work): Drag in for Votes; Exile's Complex; Why We Fight; Faces; Drag Queen Blues; Rituals and White Lies and Suburbs of Eden
Gift from filmmaker. Elspeth was a friend and colleague who I met through activist AIDS video, and documentary studies. She died tragically in her 40s.
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018."This spectacular David and Goliath story unfolds on the streets of New York, as the first action of the Women’s Committee in…
DIVA TV Dub: (1-4)
Compilation tape acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video. James Wentzy took over this project and made hundreds…
Compilation from TV: Day Without Art 1992; “We Interrupt This Program”
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. From TV recording.
Compilation from TV: The Allison Gertz Story & Uncle Ed. News
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." These are examples of the sort of sensationalist reporting on mainstream TV that fueled our strategies for AIDS activist video.
Clips
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
Tags: 1989, AIDS, Clips, Debi Sundahl, lesbian, Nan Kinney, safe sex, sexuality, woman filmmaker
Carol Leigh: Music Videos, Whores and Healers, Take Back the Night
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Carol Leigh is a longtime collaborator and friend. We worked together on RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison. I…
Caring Sequences
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friend and colleague, Juanita Mohammed Sczepanski for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show. I continue to work with Juanita, and recently included her in Compulsive…
Bebashi/Amfar Dub, blank, Final Decision, Grandma's Legacy; Keep Your Laws off My Body
Composite tape of videos acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Ted Kerr and I write extesnively about the Bebashi tape for our book, We Are Having this Conversation…
AIDS: Fast Trip, Long Drop
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Gregg is a friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker whose work has been formative to my thinking and teaching. This work, what I undertood to be the first…
Tags: 1993, activist video, AIDS, AIDS: Fast Trip, documentary, Gregg Bordowitz, Long Drop, PWA
AIDS Quarterly: 1-4
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Recorded from TV. Mainstream topical coverage.
Tags: 1989, AIDS, AIDS Quarterly: 1-4, television, WGBH Boston