Positive (1990 film)

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]

Positive
Directed byRosa von Praunheim
Produced byRosa von Praunheim
Phil Zwickler
Screenplay byRosa von Praunheim
StarringPhil Zwickler
Larry Kramer
Michael Callen
CinematographyMike Kuchar
Elfi Mikesch
Evan Estern
Edited byRosa von Praunheim
Mike Shephard
Production
company
Rosa Von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Distributed byFirst Run Features.
Release date
4 May 1990
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
West Germany
LanguageEnglish

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

References
  • Kuzniar, Alice A, The Queer German Cinema, Stanford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8047-3995-1
  • 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 1-880707-01-2


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