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AIDS Activist Videotape collection

Title: AIDS Activist Videotape collection, 1985-2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Permit needed	MssCol 3622	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Additional Authors

Uniform Title

ACT UP Live (Television program)
AIDS Community Television (Television program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video recordings

Access (note)

VHS service copies must be used in lieu of original videotapes.

Additional Formats (note)

VHS service copies available for viewing in reading room.

Terms of Use (note)

No tapes may be reproduced without written permission of the videographer.

Call Number

MssCol 3622

OCLC

NYPW02-A77

Title

AIDS Activist Videotape collection, 1985-2000.

Additional Formats

VHS service copies available for viewing in reading room.

Summary

The collection consists of original videotapes and masters of completed works documenting the grassroots response of artists and activists to the AIDS epidemic, 1985-2000. Much of the collection focuses on the protest actions of ACT UP and other activist organizations, including demonstrations and at the White House, Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, City Hall and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, President Bush's home in Maine, and at hospitals and pharmaeutical companies. There is also footage of political funerals and memorials, and planning and training sessions for activists. Also covered are International AIDS Conferences, government hearings, public forums, press conferences, and courtrooms.

The collection also includes portraits and self-portraits documenting the struggles of people living with AIDS. In the latter category are over 50 camera original tapes made for the film Silverlake Life: The View From Here by Peter Friedman. Finally, the collection includes AIDS education and safe-sex videos, the New York City local access cable television series AIDS Community Television (1993-1994), ACT UP LIVE (1994-1996), and the video compilations shown at the Guggenheim Museum's "Fever In the Archive" exhibition (2000).

Videographers represented in the collection include Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, Jay Corcoran, Peter Friedman, Stuart Gaffney, Carl Michael George, Scott Heron, Robert Hilferty, Jim Hubbard, Tom Joslin, Alexandra Juhasz, John R. Killacky, Patrick Moore, Catherine (Saalfield) Gund, Ellen Spiro, Phil Tarley, James Wentzy, Phil Zwickler and others.

Access

VHS service copies must be used in lieu of original videotapes.

Terms Of Use

No tapes may be reproduced without written permission of the videographer.

Finding Aids

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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DIVA-TV (Organization)

Bordowitz, Gregg.

Corcoran, Jay.

Friedman, Peter. Director

Gaffney, Stuart.

George, Carl Michael.

Gund, Catherine.

Heron, Scott.

Hubbard, Jim, 1951-

Joslin, Tom.

Juhasz, Alexandra.

Killacky, John R.

Moore, Patrick, 1962-

Spiro, Ellen.

Tarley, Phil.

Wentzy, James.

Zwickler, Phil, 1955-1991.

ACT UP New York (Organization)

Alliance for the Arts (New York, N.Y.)

Estate Project for Artists with AIDS.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Added Title

ACT UP Live (Television program)

AIDS Community Television (Television program)

Research Call Number

MssCol 3622

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