Positive

Dublin Core

Title

Positive

Subject

AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary

Description

Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

Date

1990

Coverage

The Gay Community’s Response to AIDS This film powerfully documents New York City’s gay community’s response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government’s failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. -- letterboxed

Alternative Title

Positiv

Abstract

A 1990 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film follows Silence = Death as the second part of von praunheim and Phil Zwickler’s trilogy about AIDS and activism. (MUBI)