Elegy in the Streets (1989)

Handprocessed 16mm Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and a political perspective the film intertwines two main motifs memories of Roger Jacoby a filmmaker who died of AIDS and the development of a mass response to AIDS The collective response begins with mourning at a candlelight vigil and the deep sadness of the AIDS Quilt and then progresses toward a much more determined reaction by ACTUP first in the Gay Pride March in New York City then in separate demonstrations that build in militancy with a corresponding increasingly heavyhanded response by the police culminating in a demonstration during a baseball game and the thumbsup sign of a teenager sporting a Silence Death button