FEUER UNTERM ARSCH
dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1990
52 mins. Germany.
In German with English subtitles.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10 – 10:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 – 10:00 PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 26 – 8:00 PM
In this final chapter of the AIDS Trilogy, Rosa von Praunheim turns his camera to the state of AIDS activism — or, more accurately, lack of it — in his native Germany. A sobering contrast to POSITIVE and SILENCE = DEATH, the rarely-screened FEUER UNTERM ARSCH led directly to one of the most controversial events of von Praunheim’s long career: his televised campaign of outing closeted gay German celebrities to force action against the epidemic in the early 1990s.