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ACT UP NY highlights: from "United in Anger-History of Act Up"
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well…
Tags: ACT UP, AIDS Activism, documentary, Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman
AIDS in the Barrio
Acquired for Alexandra Juhasz's doctoral dissertation, which then became her book entitled "AIDS TV." Although initially digitized for Alex's Fall 2018 VHS Archives class, her Spring 2020 VHS Archives class has found particular interest in this…
Tags: activism, AIDS, AIDS Activism, documentary, LatinX, lesbian, woman filmmaker
AIDS is About Secrets
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV."
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
Anatomy of a Springroll
gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
Ballot Measure 9
Gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
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…
Black and White; Color Adjustments
Dub for teaching. Marlon's work was critical for my teaching on race and racism in media. I also loved to teach Black and White by Michael Jackson when it came out. Both works made arguments about the mutability of race. Jackson made use of media in…
Black Panther
Dub used for teaching
Breaking the Bank
Gift from filmmaker. For research and teaching.
Children Will Listen
Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote an evaluation letter for her. I also knew her from Philly when I was making "The Watermelon Woman." She acted in some of the photos for the Fae Richards Archive.
Compilation: "Politics of Intimacy", "A Minor Altercation"
Dub for teaching. Amazing resource about consciousness-raising and its relation to video. Powerful to this day in its forthright conversation about women's sexuality. Minor Altercation is also on this tape. One of the first narrative films directed…
Compilation: "A Place of Rage"; "Illusions"
Two films I taught with for years by African American woman filmmakers. Julie Dash went on to make Daughter of the Dust. A Place of Rage is a celebration of African American women.
Compilation: A New Tradition; Safer Sex Counseling and Condom Talk
Three tapes made for paid gigs for the feminist Center for Family Life Education, a leader in youth education about sexuality. Quite recently, the project manager, Hillary Mushkin, a peer at the time of their production, has reentered my orbits, now…
Compilation: A Part of Me; Sacred Lies/Civil Truths
Compilation of works acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV" by friends and colleagues in the AIDS activist video movement. A Part of Me is a portrait of for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show, 1993. Featuring Alida…
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…
Everyday Echo Street and Dressing Up
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on Women of Vision. She gave me these dubs to use as B-roll for my documentary.
Excited, Angry, Active, Vocal (Women out Loud)
Made with a feminist activist video collective of my students at Swarthmore College. We were interested in what seems the perennial problem: why young women do not identify as "feminist" and why they should!
Fighting for Our Lives
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Framing the Panthers; Counterterror
Two great videos shared with me by my friend, the activist video artists, Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton.
From the Other Side
Purchased for teaching. I'm a fan.
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People; Flag
Dub for teaching. I used these films often in my first years teaching feminist and women's film. Maybe Women Make Movies or the artists sent them to me for research for Women of Vision.
Hear Me Out
Gift from Gina Lamb, director of REACH LA at the time. Don't believe I ever watched this.
History and Memory
A film I taught with and still do because of Tajima's amazing mix of documentary, fiction, history, art, and feminism.
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.
Homecoming
Gift from filmmaker. Acquired for teaching and research and because I wrote a review letter for her.
Homosexuality: One Child's Point of View
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski is a community video artist and activist.
She uses inexpensive camcorder video technology to respond to the needs of those who matter to her. In her work at GMHC in New York City, Mohammed Szczepanski makes educational…
She uses inexpensive camcorder video technology to respond to the needs of those who matter to her. In her work at GMHC in New York City, Mohammed Szczepanski makes educational…
I Stare at You and Dream
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on my documentary and book, Women of Vision.
In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff and Number Our Days
I taught these films often in feminist documentary as well as in a course on ethnographic film and autobiography. Myerhoff's self-reflexive, community-situated documentary-making has long been a model for me. I learned about her work from my mentor,…
In Search of Our Fathers
Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s.
Lavendar Limelight; Couple in The Cage; (The) Perfect Film
Compilation of dubs for teaching. Lavendar Limelight is a documentary about queer film histsory. Couple in a cage is by Coco Fusco, a friend and colleague who supported me in the beginning of my career by helping me get a large grant for We Care when…
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
Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100
gift from filmmaker. Yvonne is my longtime friend and collaborator. I teach her films frequently in courses on feminist, queer, and documentary film. We co-edited Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African-American Media Making (2018).
Love Makes A Family: Lesbians and Gay Families in the Religious Society of Friends
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Making Sun-dried Red Peppers
Gift from fellow professor interested in fake docs and Korean and women's cinema.
Midnight Ramble
Pearl Bowser was one of the subjects of my book and documentary project Women of Vision. This is her documentary about race films. I used it as b-roll for the documentary.
Missing Relations
Gift from filmmaker. Yvonne is my longtime friend and collaborator. I teach her films frequently in courses on feminist, queer, and documentary film. She was one of the subjects for my project, Women of Vision. Later yet we co-edited the scholarly…
Murder of Fred Hampton
dub used only for teaching
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Perceptual Landscapes: Films of Barbara Hammer, Volume 3
Gift from filmmaker. Barbara is a friend and colleage. She was one of the subjects of my book and documentary on feminist film history, Women of Vision. Over a long career in filmmaking, Barbara explored many styles and theories that woud allow her…
Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement
This documentary examines critical junctures in the battle for access to HIV treatment as the poorest and most marginalized individuals confront larger powers, including governments, corporate bodies and a multinational drug industry that is…
Police Tapes; Video in the Villages; Video Cannibalism
Compilation tape of documentary and ethnographic film for teaching. The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. Video in the Villages organizes indigenous workshops in training and production.…
Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1990, activist video, AIDS, documentary, Positive, PWA, Rosa von Praunheim
PWA Power
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC.
Rabbit in The Moon
Dub for teaching and research.
RELEASED: Five Short Videos about Women and Prison
A project I produced with other filmmakers and activists in a collective focusing on the challenges and possibilities of representation of abolition, women, and prison.
Roam Sweet Home: Fine Cut
Gift from filmmaker. Ellen is a friend and collaborator. I helped a little on this film by holding the puppet/prostheses that stood in for her dog who had died before the shoot was over. Recently I produced a short documentary for Ellen and…
Samantha Myers and FD on Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee)
Gift from filmmaker. Sam was the daughter of my friend and colleague, Faye Ginsburg, who gave me the video to teach with. Both agreed it would promote her activist agenda to be digitized and put online. Samantha Ginsburg Myers, 33, passed away…
Screaming Queens: The Riot @ Compton Cafeteria
Gift from filmmaker. Victor was a colleague at the Claremont Colleges. We spoke often about his developing documentary practice. Susan is a friend and colleague. The documentary makes an important intervention into queer and trans history and film by…
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,…