Video Remains

Video Remains

AIDS, PWAs, experimental video, activist video, documentary, woman filmmaker

An experimental video made from the real-time video that I shot in 1991 on his request, with my best friend, James Robert Lamb, as he was in the later stages of living with AIDS and discussing his legacy. For the documentary, I also interview fellow lesbian AIDS activists (on the phone), my hairdresser in the salon, and queer youth of color at a group called MPowerment, led by my friend and colleague Pato Hebert, at AIDS Project Los Angeles. We all discuss memory, grief, and activism.

I write extensively about the tape in "We Are Having this Conversation Now," co-written with Ted Kerr. And I revisit the tape, and my mourning and memories of Jim (and my collaborator and friend, Juanita) in my newest work on loss, mourning, and technologies of memory, "Please Hold" (2024).

Chris Castiglia and Chris Reed, If Memory Serves
Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past, university of Minnesota Press, 2011

We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, Juhasz and Kerr, Duke University Press, 2022

Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, and Queer Archive Activism, Juhasz, GLQ, Volume 12, Number 2, 2006, pp. 319-328

Alexandra Juhasz

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