POSITIVE
dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1990
82 mins. Germany.
In English.
FRIDAY, JUNE 03 – 10:00 PM
MONDAY, JUNE 06 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 26 – 5:00 PM
In this first installment of the AIDS Trilogy, Rosa von Praunheim teams up with gay activist filmmaker Phil Zwickler to give a multifaceted look at the New York gay community’s response to the epidemic and their efforts to provoke Mayor Ed Koch into taking action to fight it. Devastating, inspiring, and, as always, fiercely controversial, POSITIVE is an essential, yet overlooked piece of activist filmmaking and one of the finest chronicles of the epidemic at a time it was still largely being ignored.