A collection of photos, writings, and videos from screenings and installations.
Please Hold is committed to community-based dialogue, trust, and responsibility. We invite you to share something from or about your screening and we will add it to this online collection: a photo, some writing, a video, something that you have kept for another.
PLEASE HOLD my tears
Please Hold screened as part of the Cinema of Gender Transgression Series at Anthology Film Archives in NYC curated by Joey Carducci…
Visible Evidence Reflections
Please Hold screened to a rapt and engaged audience of about 30 participants of the Visible Evidence Documentary conference in Philadelphia: scholars,…
Alexandra Juhasz on Please Hold, Film Comment’s “The Letter”
By Mackenzie Lukenbill on July 28, 2025 Moving-image artist and scholar Alexandra Juhasz has been grappling with the past and present of…
Knowledge of AIDS network
4 AIDS workers settle in for an intimate screening in Galveston. Small groups engaging with this video yield stories, tears, and the…
Autostraddle interview
March 21, 2025 Read the full interview with Lauren Herold here: https://www.autostraddle.com/new-diy-documentary-honors-aids-media-activism-love-loss-and-queer-community/
A reverend’s thoughts
The Reverend Canon Marie A. Tatro watched Please Hold on her computer with hopes of potentially screening it as part of her…
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore watches at home, then gives me a call
Mattilda and I share a deep commitment to many things: AIDS, writing, walking, phones, protests. I met her in person last year…
Parkside Premier: CHRISTEENE sings
Please Hold premiered at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on March 2, 2025 (more images here). The…
Online Premier: Alex Fialho walks and talks
The beautiful and loving online premier featured conversation among amazing AIDS workers, all writers for the anthology AIDS and the Distribution of…
Williams College Doc Class: 2 students write back
I screened Please Hold on Zoom to a small documentary class at Williams College taught by Cecilia Aldarondo on March 3, 2025.…
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski Family Screening: art, love, and posters
On April 21, 2025 we screened Please Hold at Positive Exposure uptown in Manhattan for a room of Juanita’s family and friends…
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