Positive (1990 film)

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Positive
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Produced by Rosa von Praunheim
Phil Zwickler
Screenplay by Rosa von Praunheim
Starring Phil Zwickler
Larry Kramer
Michael Callen
Cinematography Mike Kuchar
Elfi Mikesch
Evan Estern
Editing by Rosa von Praunheim
Mike Shephard
Studio Rosa Von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Distributed by First Run Features.
Release dates 4 May 1990
Running time 60 minutes
Country U.S.A
West Germany
Language English

Positive is a 1990 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film follows Silence = Death as the second part of von praunheim and Phil Zwickler’s trilogy about AIDS and activism.[1]

This film documents New York City’s gay community’s response to the AIDS crisis during the 1980s as they were forced to organize themselves after the government’s slow response to stem the epidemic. Activist who are interviewed include New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, playwright and gay activist Larry Kramer and musician Michael Callen who co-founded people with AIDS Coalition.[2] Framing the individual stories of these three men is a chronicle of the creation of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, ACT- UP and Queer Nation as the gay community confronted the AIDS epidemic.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109
  2. ↑ Kuzniar, The Queer German Cinema, p. 90

References

  • Kuzniar, Alice A, The Queer German Cinema, Standford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8047-3995-I
  • Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Guide to the Cinema of Spain. TLA Publications, 1994, ISBN 1880707012

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