Some brief thoughts on your answers:  November 19, 2025 The first one makes a lot of sense. I’m sure that’s what happened with my old apartment building; the steps were quite similar… Read More »Email exchange Aprés New School with Max

Marty couldn’t make it to New York for this screening for the series Cinema of Transgressions, as much as we had wanted to. A recent injury made Zoom inaccessible to… Read More »Marty Fink @ Anthology (on and about Zoom)

Please Hold screened to a rapt and engaged audience of about 30 participants of the Visible Evidence Documentary conference in Philadelphia: scholars, filmmakers, friends. Here are two beautiful responses from… Read More »Visible Evidence Reflections

By Mackenzie Lukenbill on July 28, 2025 Moving-image artist and scholar Alexandra Juhasz has been grappling with the past and present of AIDS on film, tape, and video and in… Read More »Alexandra Juhasz on Please Hold, Film Comment’s “The Letter”

Small groups engaging with this video yield stories, tears, and the deep connections that are themes and practices of Please Hold. This inter-generational screening comprised some of the scholars from… Read More »Knowledge of AIDS network

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/

The Reverend Canon Marie A. Tatro watched Please Hold on her computer with hopes of potentially screening it as part of her community justice ministry. She wrote this summary for… Read More »A reverend’s thoughts

Mattilda and I share a deep commitment to many things: AIDS, writing, walking, phones, protests. I met her in person last year when she was on tour in NY for… Read More »Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore watches at home, then gives me a call

Please Hold premiered at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on March 2, 2025 (more images here). The bar is a focus of hope and memory… Read More »Parkside Premier: CHRISTEENE sings