Movies: James Wentzy
- 1996
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker (1996)
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I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s former career as a sex worker and his relationship with his Jewish family. From graphic, erotic massages to a revealing interview with his grandmothe...
- 2015
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger (2015)
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From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potenti...
- 2006
The Books of James: Director's Cut (2006)
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Inspired by a collection of personal notebooks, this feature-length director’s cut of the short film by the same name is an experimental documentary on art, AIDS and activism. Following James Wentzy from South Dakota to New York City, the film traces...
- 2002
Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 Years of ACT UP (2002)
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A look at the ACT UP movement from its inception to the present day....
- 1989
Boys/Life (1989)
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An unfashionably joyous celebration of safe sex (group masturbation parties) and affection (fondling in public places) among gay men....
- 1996
The Ashes Action (1996)
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AIDS Community Television weekly series, originally telecast September 16, 1996. Sunday October 11, 1992 Bring your grief and rage about AIDS to a Political Funeral in Washington DC. You have lost someone to AIDS. For more than a decade, your govern...
- 1996
Political Decadence (1996)
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A 12-minute video produced for the 1996 MIX Film Festival. Jim Hubbard, the founder of MIX, asked Wentzy "to make it personal." It contains graphic demonstration of a condom being put on alongside of Hesse Helms, speeches by other reactionary politic...
- 1994
...by any means necessary (1994)
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A six-minute short produced for the 1994 MIX Film Festival, based on the treatise of the then-anonymous Kiki Mason, and distributed at events and festivities during Stonewall 25....
- 2002
The Books of James (2002)
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Through a stack of personal journals, this video reconstructs a biography of the South Dakota-born, New York City-enlightened artist James Wentzy. Tracing his days starting out as a struggling artist and later involved as an AIDS activist, the video ...
- 2016
Compulsive Practice (2016)
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For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS commissioned COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change ho...