Film

ACT UP Shorts

Mon, Oct 15, 2012

6:50PM

LOCATION:

Peter Jay Sharp Building

BAM Rose Cinemas

FORMAT: BetaSP

GENERAL ADMISSION: $12

BAM CINEMA CLUB MEMBERS: $7

STUDENTS/SENIORS: $9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)

+ Q&A with filmmakers Jean Carlomusto, Gregg Bordowitz, Zoe Leonard, and Nancy Brody

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Monday October 15, 2012

Performances no longer available.

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Part of BAMcinématek 2012 series Born in Flames: New Queer Cinema

Fast Trip, Long Drop

Directed by Gregg Bordowitz

(1994) 54min, BetaSP

Doctors, Liars and Women

Directed by Jean Carlomusto and Maria Maggenti

(1988), 24 min, BetaSP

East River Park

Directed by Zoe Leonard and Nancy Brooks Brody

(1991) 4min, DVD

“I want to challenge artists to deal with AIDS in whatever form they want—but to do it in a way that reveals what their stake is, to do it in a way that doesn’t pose as objectivism, that doesn’t pose as removed for any academic reasons of aestheticism. To honestly deal with what is at stake for them in the AIDS crisis.”—Gregg Bordowitz

A collection of shorts by artists associated with ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), including Jean Carlomusto & Maria Maggenti’s documentation of the first AIDS demonstration focused on women, Zoe Leonard’s somber exploration of the graffiti at a popular cruising spot, and Gregg Bordowitz’s essay film about his identity as both an AIDS activist and a person living with the disease.