Screenings: Please Hold
no screenings til Fall, feel free to organize your own. Come back soon!
Recent Events, Conferences, Gatherings
Poetics in the Politics of Now Symposium, Documentary as Health Care, with Liz Roberts, May 14-17, 2026. UC Santa Cruz.
Past Events: HOLDING PATTERNS (NY/LA 2025)
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011. More here.
Associated workshops, a bus tour, and panel above. Online version of the installation available: Holding Patterns: The Digital Exhibition.
The One Archives, Los Angeles. 909 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007. More here.
Online version of the installation available here: Holding Patterns: The Digital Exhibition.
This installation was supported, in part, by a PSC CUNY Research Award. Online version of the installation available here.
Last Address Bus Tour, commencing at The One Archives.
Hear a discussion with the tour’s programmers, Alex Fialho and Alex Juhasz, on Noticiero Popular, a news program produced by volunteers from Radio Santa Ana, here.
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. Reflections here.
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. See Brody’s 2026 Film Quarterly article about the project, “Technologies of memory and Anticipatory Grief,” here.
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?