Movies: Gregg Bordowitz

  • 2007
    Strange Culture

    Strange Culture (2007)

    Strange Culture

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    The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, H...

    Strange Culture
  • 2017
    Only Idiots Smile

    Only Idiots Smile (2017)

    Only Idiots Smile

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    "Gregg Bordowitz's 2017 performance lecture "Only Idiots Smile" features the artist on a stool in the New Museum's top-floor sky room, riffing on the formation of his identity. At one point, he explains his 'Jewish identity is the template thru which...

    Only Idiots Smile
  • 1997
    The Suicide

    The Suicide (1997)

    The Suicide

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    The protagonist, Semyon, tries to unyoke himself from the enforced optimism of a bureaucratic order that prohibits any discussion of disappointment and despair following the revolution....

    The Suicide
  • 1994
    Fast Trip, Long Drop

    Fast Trip, Long Drop (1994)

    Fast Trip, Long Drop

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    A gay jewish man speaks out about living with and dying from AIDS. He also discusses how being gay has affected his identity as a jew and his relationship with his parents....

    Fast Trip, Long Drop
  • 1969
    Habit

    Habit (1969)

    Habit

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    HABIT is an autobiographical documentary that follows the current history of the AIDS epidemic along several trajectories. The organizing structure is built around the daily routine of the videomaker -- a veteran AIDS activist in the U.S., and a pers...

    Habit
  • 1993
    Portraits of People Living With HIV

    Portraits of People Living With HIV (1993)

    Portraits of People Living With HIV

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    An up-close compilation of interviews and discussions with people living with HIV in the early 1990s....

    Portraits of People Living With HIV
  • 1991
    Clean Needles Save Lives

    Clean Needles Save Lives (1991)

    Clean Needles Save Lives

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    Video on needle exchange and harm reduction....

    Clean Needles Save Lives
  • 1992
    It Is What It Is

    It Is What It Is (1992)

    It Is What It Is

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    Gay teenagers discuss a variety of issues, including sexual identity, problems associated with coming out, and health and safety concerns....

    It Is What It Is
  • 1989
    Something Fierce

    Something Fierce (1989)

    Something Fierce

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    Short film created for Gay Men's Health Crisis...

    Something Fierce