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The Gay Community's Response to AIDS

1990 1h 23mDocumentary

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

2.1/5

TMDB score· 6 votes

Synopsis

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

Behind it

Rosa von PraunheimRosa von PraunheimDirectorEvan EsternCinematographyMike KucharMike KucharCinematography

Cast

Phil ZwicklerPhil ZwicklerSelf
Larry KramerLarry KramerSelf
Michael CallenMichael CallenSelf
Peter StaleyPeter StaleySelf
Gary EllerSelf
Diamanda GalásSelf
Jay CorcoranSelf
John FinchSelf
Arnie KantrowitzSelf
Ed KochEd KochSelf
Mark MilanoSelf
Ronald ReaganRonald ReaganSelf
Rosa von PraunheimRosa von PraunheimSelf

Director

Rosa von Praunheim

Writer

Rosa von Praunheim

Release date

4 May 1990

Runtime

1h 23m

Studio

Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion, WDR

Language

English

Country

Germany

AIDS Trilogy

Documentary film trilogy

Silence = Death

AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.

2.6

Silence = Death

1990

Positive

This film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

2.1

Positive

1990

Fire Under Your Ass

The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less enthusiastic about safe sex, let alone safe sex 'with Mother Earth', which Allen Ginsburg envisions for dealing with an AIDS-like contaminated earth. In Berlin, the gay capital of Germany, Praunheim encounters a party atmosphere during his research. "There's no one who thinks safe sex is good," say some of them, yet they plead for reason, "you also have to have the freedom to fuck yourself to death," is the extreme response of the boys, who do not want their painstakingly acquired identity as gays to be reduced to an AIDS identity through voluntary restrictions. Praunheim has also tracked down politically active people in Germany, but according to his observations, they are identified with the unpleasant truth and avoided according to the Cassandra principle.

5.0

Fire Under Your Ass

1990

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