Screenings: Please Hold
Film Diary 4, Millenium Film Workshop, Bushwick NY, 4 pm, March 23, 2026. Full festival info here.
OTHER CINEMA, San Francisco CA, May 16, 2026. Full calendar here.
Events, Conferences, Gatherings
Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology Symposium, All Too Human, Connecticut College, March 2026.
CLAAGS, Queer-Class Relations Conference, April 17, 2026: 10:15-11:30. Segal Theater, CUNY Grad Center.
Poetics in the Politics of Now Symposium, May 14-17, 2026. UC Santa Cruz.
Events: HOLDING PATTERNS (NY/LA 2025)
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011. More here.
The One Archives, Los Angeles. 909 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007. More here.
This installation was supported, in part, by a PSC CUNY Research Award.
Past Screenings
In-Person Premier: March 2, 2025, The Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side, 317 E. Houston St., New York. Screening and performance 5-7 p.m. EST. Community gathering 3-5 p.m. See pix here!
Online Webinar Premier: March 8, 2025, 3-5 pm EST, featuring authors and editors from “AIDS and the Distribution of Crises” (Duke 2020): Cecilia Aldarando, Pablo Alvarez, Jih-Fei Cheng, Pato Hebert, Alexandra Juhasz, Nishant Shahani. Pix and reflections here.
Williams College, Documentary class screening with Cecilia Aldorando, March 2025.
Picture Lock Film Series, March 22, 2025, 7 pm CST, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. In person. More info here.
Knowledge of AIDS Network meetings, March 28, 2025, Galveston TX, UTMB.
SCMS, April 3, 2025, 7 pm CST: Northwestern University Downtown, Chicago, IL. Hosted by Dr. Aymar Jean Christian.
Occidental College. Documentary class screening with Dr. Brody Fox, April 14.
Columbia Teacher’s College, video art class with Katherine Cheairs. April 16.
VISIBLE EVIDENCE DOCUMENTARY CONFERENCE, Wednesday, August 6, Temple University, Philadelphia. Reflections from scholar/makers Marty Lucas and Jeffrey Skoller here.
THE CINEMA OF GENDER TRANSGRESSION, Anthology Film Archives, August 7 – August 13. Reflections from co-curator, Joey Carducci, here.
Please Hold is an extended conversation. Join us!
What does it mean to hold the legacy of beloveds on changing formats? How do mourning and memory change across time and tech? Whatever could it mean that twice in my life (in my late 20s and then in my late 50s), two friends (so different from each other) asked me to tape them—as AIDS activists and collaborators—as they were nearing death?