FILM SCREENINGS

Silence = Death
Rosa von Praunheim, Germany 1990
Color / 55 minutes / OV with subtitles: EN

Fire Under Your Ass
Rosa von Praunheim, Germany 1990
Color / 50 minutes / OV with subtitles: EN

PLOT

Second and third parts of von Praunheim’s trilogy on HIV/AIDS.

Silence = Death features conversations with people from New York’s art scene who are confronted with the virus. Performances, film excerpts, interviews: alongside Emilio Cubeiro, Keith Haring, and Allen Ginsberg, the shock of artist David Wojnarowicz’s words and images shapes the film most powerfully. In Fire Under Your Ass, Rosa von Praunheim exposes the alarming absence of queer activism against HIV/AIDS in Germany.

The screening will be introduced in French by the curatorial collective ladestructiondesespacesvides.