(In)visible Women

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Title

(In)visible Women

Subject

AIDS, Woman Filmmaker, African-American, Activism

Description

Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Ellen Spiro is a friend and fellow AIDS video activist videomaker and documentarian. She has had a stellar career as a documentarian making AIDS activist videos and then more mainstraim and wide reaching documentaries on a variety of social justice concerns. I interview her about her activist AIDS video work (particularly with Ray Navarro) in my documentary "Video Remains" (2005) as well as many other feminist lesbian AIDS activists who are also represented in my VHS collection: i.e. Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, Alisa Lebow, and Sarah Schulman. I recently produced a short AIDS doc for Ellen (with Cheryl Dunye as co-director) "DiAna's Hair Ego Remix."

Date

1991

Format

VHS

Language

English

Abstract

The film focuses on the responses of three women with AIDS in their respective communities. The program examines the refusal of the women to remain invisible victims of HIV, and defy notions of female complacency through art, community AIDS education, and AIDS activism.

Produced for the Fear of Disclosure Project and included in the Fall 1991 Deep Dish TV series Celebrating 20 Years of Public Access Television.