Film
BPM
- 9:30PM
Robin Campillo’s beautifully filmed French feature premiered on the festival circuit in 2017, winning the Cannes Grand Prix and the César Award for Best Film. A vulnerable and moving cinematic exploration of ACT UP’s growth in France in the 90s, the drama spotlights public acts of protest, tense town halls, group victories, and private mourning—powerfully paying homage to the joys and struggles of the real people behind the historic movement.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
New York queer history takes center stage in Jim Hubbard’s powerful documentary about the creation and activism of ACT UP in the 1980s.
Mixing poetry and performance, this experimental artistic exploration from Marlon Riggs centering Black gay men remains a radical act of representation.
Released four months prior to his passing, Derek Jarman’s final film is his own tale—an artist's response to going blind while dying of AIDS.