David Wojnarowicz
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You Killed Me First
Jan 01, 1985Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing in her dank emo-den. When confronted with the humanity and hypocrisy of her tormentors, the young antihero vanquishes their belief systems (and bodies) asserting, "You killed me first!"
Drama
AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance.
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Where Evil Dwells
Sep 27, 1985Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Horror
Toute la beauté et le sang versé
Nov 23, 2022Nan Goldin a révolutionné l’art de la photographie et réinventé la notion du genre et les définitions de la normalité. Immense artiste, Nan Goldin est aussi une activiste infatigable, qui, depuis des années, se bat contre la famille Sackler, responsable de la crise des opiacés aux États-Unis et dans le monde. Toute la beauté et le sang versé nous mène au cœur de ses combats artistiques et politiques, mus par l’amitié, l’humanisme et l’émotion.
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All I can feel is the pressure
Jan 01, 1970David Wojnarowicz speaking before his death. Tens pounds of pressure, tens pounds of rage
American Obsessions
Jan 01, 1983Richard Kern’s 1983 film "American Obsessions" features David Wojnarowicz interacting with plaster heads from his “Metamorphosis” sculpture series. Kern went on to create two more films with David, "Stray Dogs" from his series Manhattan Love Suicides, 1984 and "You Killed Me First," 1985.
The Hardcore Collection
Feb 21, 2012This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley 69 , The Right Side Of My Brain, You Killed Me First, The Bitches, The Sewing Circle, X is Y, Fingered, Horoscope, Submit to Me Now, My Nightmare, Manhattan Loves Suicides, Submit to Me, and Evil Cameraman. Music from Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, J.G. Thirwell, Butthole Surfers.
Drama
A Fire in My Belly
Mar 01, 1990Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.
Manhattan Love Suicides
Jan 01, 1985A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
Drama
Pompeii New York, Part 1: Pier Caresses
Jan 01, 1982A crumbling pier, its walls covered with graffiti and erotic frescoes reminiscent of pagan Pompeii, the locus of the seduction rituals of men longing for men, is the focus of this meditation on gay cruising at the height of sexual freedom before AIDS. Shot in 1982, this is the first segment of a film capturing the life, death, and rebirth of the legendary “sex piers” over the last three decades.
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Political artist, painter, writer, performer and photographer David Wojnarowicz was one of the leading personalities of the 1980s New York art scene. In an interview conducted in 1989 by cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer, Wojnarowicz speaks candidly about intimate moments in his life, the creative process, sexuality, AIDS, and coming to terms with one’s own death - at a time when society categorically refused to face up to the AIDS epidemic.
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Abuse
Apr 15, 1983Brutally abused by his parents, teenage Thomas finds comfort in associating with a film director who is making a documentary about physical child abuse. The two fall in love, and the elder is faced with the decision of either running away with Thomas or focusing on his career and thereby letting the boy possibly be beaten to death.
Drama
Bust
Jan 01, 1991A close up head and shoulders of David Wojnarowicz, is the only image. He speaks with characteristic candor and ferocity about his experience being a person with AIDS.
Documentary
By the Dawn's Early Light
Jan 01, 1994An intriguing, powerful work, portraying a journey through the dark, ugly underbelly of a rough and disturbed America. Resembling a Situationist d rive, images from the streets of New York and the Las Vegas strip mingle with prison-like structures. Laid over the collage is the voice of artist and gay activist David Wojnarawicz relating stories of personal anguish and acts of violence.
Listen to This
Jan 01, 1992Listen to This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary Queer discourse. Tom Rubnitz weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz’s loss and anger is palpable.
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Phil Interviews David Wojnarowicz
Jan 01, 1990Phil Zwickler interviews David Wojnarowicz about a NEA project grant for a gallery show.
Around Clown
Mar 04, 1987
An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed it, the film is narrated by voiceover culled from 30 hours of archival cassette tape interviews over a 45 year period. Artists such as Laurie Anderson, Mike Kelley, Hito Steyerl and David Wojnarowicz walk us through the decades. A formally-experimental and raucously-told chronology composed of rare archival documentation, The Business of Thought... is a reminder of the radical potential of the arts and the importance of collective, cultural spaces.
Documentary
Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
Apr 15, 2020A collage-like, incisive look at the life of writer, painter and thinker David Wojnarowicz, whose powerful, unapologetic way of seeing the world gave voice to queer rights at a critical time in US history.
Documentary
Promises: Through Congress
Apr 24, 2021Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten. This 46-minute film features Mehretu’s expansive painting Congress (2003) and Promises (Luaka Bop, 2021), the acclaimed album from Floating Points and jazz titan Pharoah Sanders featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. Filmed on location at The Broad in Los Angeles.
Where Evil Dwells
Sep 27, 1985Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Horror
Where Evil Dwells
Sep 27, 1985Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Horror
Where Evil Dwells
Sep 27, 1985Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Horror
Beautiful People
Jan 01, 1988Beautiful People was one of the last films David Wojnarowicz made before his death. The film follows Jesse Hultberg as he makes himself up in drag and ventures out onto the streets of New York, then beyond the city limits to a quiet lakeside.
Drama
Fear of Disclosure
Sep 24, 1989An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Super 8
Jan 01, 1988A Fire in My Belly
Mar 01, 1990Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.
When I Put My Hands on Your Body
Jan 01, 1989The series of five videos Collaborative Film Collection made in collaboration with Marion Scemama in 1989 is emblematic of Wojnarowicz's artistic practice, it unfolds through performance, films, photographs, texts and paintings. Taking a highly subjective point of departure he shares poetic and moving moments, moving through the material until his voice achieves a universal dimension.
Around Clown
Mar 04, 1987
ITSOFOMO
Jan 01, 1991ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion) is a multimedia performance collaboration created by artist David Wojnarowicz and composer/musician Ben Neill in 1989. Integrating music, text, and video in a multi-dimensional format, the work embodies the act of acceleration and its sensory manifestations. It is through this frame that Wojnarowicz addressed the accelerating AIDS crisis and the politics of AIDS in the United States at that moment.
Heroin
Jan 01, 1981Fear of Disclosure
Sep 24, 1989An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Fear of Disclosure
Sep 24, 1989An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
By the Dawn's Early Light
Jan 01, 1994An intriguing, powerful work, portraying a journey through the dark, ugly underbelly of a rough and disturbed America. Resembling a Situationist d rive, images from the streets of New York and the Las Vegas strip mingle with prison-like structures. Laid over the collage is the voice of artist and gay activist David Wojnarawicz relating stories of personal anguish and acts of violence.
Beautiful People
Jan 01, 1988Beautiful People was one of the last films David Wojnarowicz made before his death. The film follows Jesse Hultberg as he makes himself up in drag and ventures out onto the streets of New York, then beyond the city limits to a quiet lakeside.
Drama
Fear of Disclosure
Sep 24, 1989An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Postcards from America
Sep 10, 1994Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
Drama
Where Evil Dwells
Sep 27, 1985Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and the only footage that survived is this 28 minute preview that was put together for the Downtown New York Film Festival in 1985.
Horror
Heroin
Jan 01, 1981Beautiful People
Jan 01, 1988Beautiful People was one of the last films David Wojnarowicz made before his death. The film follows Jesse Hultberg as he makes himself up in drag and ventures out onto the streets of New York, then beyond the city limits to a quiet lakeside.
Drama
Arthur Rimbaud in New York
Jan 01, 19781978–79. Slideshow, approx. 7 min. Courtesy the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W, New York.
