Home Video Returns
Cineaste, 2014, v. 39, no. 3
Cineaste Publishers, 2014
This conversation between video artist and activist Alexandra Juhasz and Visual AIDS Program Manager Ted Kerr explores the dichotomy between mainstream filmic representations of HIV/AIDS and alternative AIDS media. Accordingly, other binaries are set up and deconstructed throughout this dialogue, including those of film vs. video, fiction vs. documentary, narrative filmmaking vs. experimental mediamaking, the movie theatre vs. the art gallery, speaking for the community vs. self-representation, and historical retrospective of the AIDS crisis vs. activist intervention throughout time, from the 1980s to presently.
ITEM 2014.033 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Dallas Buyers Club – Jean-Marc
How to Survive a Plague – Vallée
Philomena – David France
Like a Prayer – Stephen Frears
Keep Your Laws Off My Body – DIVA TV
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies – Catherine Saalfield and
Philadelphia – Zoe Leonard
Silverlake Life – Mark Rappaport
Video Remains – Jonathan Demme
Sex Positive – Peter Friedman and
Heart Break Opens – Tom Joslin
Liberaceón – Alexandra Juhasz
Sex in an Epidemic – Daryl Wein
We Were Here – William Maria Rain
When Did you Figure Out You had AIDS – Chris Vargas
United on Anger – Jean Carlomusto
Untitled – David Weissman
Bumming Cigarettes – Vincent Chevalier
He Said – Jim Hubbard
Your Nostalgia is Killing Me – Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz, and Encke King
Boys Don't Cry
Monster – Tiona McClodden
Poison – Irwin Swirnoff
Voices from the Front – Vincent Chevalier with Ian Bradley-Perrin
Mississippi Burning – Kimberly Peirce
The Watermelon Woman – Patty Jenkins
Behind the Candelabra – Todd Haynes
Last Address – Sandra Elgear, Robyn Hutt, and
AIDS in New York: The First 5 Years – David Meieran
Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism – Alan Parker
Gran Fury – Cheryl Dunye
General Idea – Steven Soderbergh
Portraits in the Time of AIDS, 1988 – Ira Sachs
Four – New York Historical Society
Tarnation – New York Public Library
We Care: A Video for Care Providers of People Affected by AIDS – 80WSE
Musée d'Art Moderne
Rosalind Solomon
Joshua Sanchez
Jonathan Caouette
Women’s AIDS Video Enterprise