6 Feet: Dancers That I Know and Love

The Lie is the latest in an ongoing series of short films by Carl George drawing on found footage and materials from the artist’s archive. Offering “ruminations on ruined nations,” the film aims to expose the links between war, AIDS, capitalism, and the persistent mythologies that bind them all. Commissioned in by Visual AIDS in 2019 as part of STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven short videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

A Super-8, home-style movie which explores the radical advances made by PWA's (People With AIDS), in developing their own health care. Focusing precisely on the ordinary minutiae of David Conover and Joe Walsh's daily life, DHPG Mon Amour shows the struggle for self-determination and control over one's own body and resonates on an intimate and more broadly political level. DHPG Mon Amour was featured at the 1990 New Directors Series at the Museum of Modern Art and The Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. The film has been exhibited at festivals, museums and theaters throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe, is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. DHPG Mon Amour was recently incorporated into the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague (2012).

Examines the relationship between the rise of homophobia and racism during times of frenzied patriotism. The image of Whitney Houston singing the national anthem at Superbowl XXV is juxtaposed with CNN news footage of millitary maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, and a five borough anti-violence march organized by the New York Lesbian and Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project.

Starring Valerie Caris, Kembra Pfahler, Samoa, Philly, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Brad and Brian Taylor, Adrianne Saich, Gordon Kurtti, Lorraine and Amy Lamont Taylor and a cast of thousands.

Kites, a beautiful summer day on Belle Isle, and Jessye Norman

A loving memory poem to New York City in the days before the tsunami of AIDS and the horror of 9/11. A time of unbridled joy and creativity, when the laboratory was open and artists could afford to move to the city.

A diverse program of films and videos by various artists who challenge conventional representations of gender, family and sexuality, curated by Tom Kalin for Drift Distribution.

A film starring Gordon Kurtti, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Samoa, and others with original soundtrack by Barry Frier on percussion and Samoa on vocals. Inspired by Japanese Noe theater and specifically Sankai Juku, films from Hollywood’s silent era and 1920s German Expressionist theatre and film.

Dust to dust

A journey of discovery through my own lavender lenses

Starring Jack Waters with a special guest appearance by Peter Cramer.

A journey of discovery of my Lebanese heritage through my own lavender lenses