AIDS Activist Videotape Collection 1985-2000

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AIDS Activist Videotape Collection 1985-2000

Videotape collection documenting AIDS activism.

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Estate Project for Artists with AIDS

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A Short History of AIDS Activist Video AIDS activist video is a direct descendant of a rich and varied tradition of alternative cinema. Its antecedents include the work of Dziga Vertov, the New American Cinema, the portapak tapes made by such groups as TVTV and Videofreex, feminist documentaries of the sixties and seventies and the political filmmaking collective Newsreel. Like their predecessors, AIDS activists continued the practice of using whatever tools were availab...