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 potentially risky behaviors. Co-founder of both...
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 grandmother, Roth tells a unique tale and explores themes...
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 how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. This...
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 political leaders, and stylized masturbation.
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 his days from struggling and surviving as an...
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 provides an intimate portrait of a neglected hero.
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 government has mocked your loss. You have spoken out in...
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.
A twelve-minute video produced for the 1997 MIX Film Festival. The founder of MIX asked Wentzy to "make it personal." The video provoked a MNN public access hearing for whether it should be considered obscene and lacking artistic merit, to which they unanimously concluded that the video was, in...
