475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
"The coolest film organization in the world." —John Waters
Est. 1961.
Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and a political perspective, the film intertwines two main motifs: memories of Roger Jacoby, a filmmaker who died of AIDS, and the development of a mass response to AIDS. The collective response begins with mourning at a candlelight vigil and the deep sadness of the AIDS Quilt and then progresses toward a much more determined reaction by ACT-UP: first, in the Gay Pride March in New York City, then in separate demonstrations that build in militancy – with a corresponding increasingly heavy-handed response by the police – culminating in a demonstration during a baseball game and the thumbs-up sign of a teenager sporting a Silence = Death button.
"... roars with urgency from beginning to end." – Karl Soehnlein, Outweek
"... a powerful work that chronicles the filmmaker's experience of a political moment filled with personal loss." – Jason Simon, Afterimage
"... exquisitely hand-processed ... miniature portraits of a friend ... infusing his memorial not with nostalgia, but activism." – Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative (a.k.a. New American Cinema Group) is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Established in 1961 by a group of 22 path-breaking moving image artists (including Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, and Stan Brakhage), the Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes, and DVDs in its collection.
475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm