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.
Direction
Rosa von Praunheim's unflinching vérité approach.
Acting
Larry Krammer's incandescent, furious testimony.
Editing
Raw footage assembled with desperate, necessary urgency.
Director
Rosa von Praunheim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Rosa von Praunheim, a gay German filmmaker, was already prolific in queer cinema when he embedded himself with ACT-UP NY in 1989.
This was one of the first documentaries to capture ACT-UP's 'die-ins' and the Silence=Death project before they became iconic imagery.
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