AUBIN PICTURES: VIRTUAL EXCLUSIVES

NewFest celebrates the 30th anniversary of Aubin Pictures, a production company committed to creating cultural awareness through social justice-driven storytelling.

Join us in preserving our community’s history with four legacy short films from Aubin Pictures available exclusively to stream at watch.newfest.org from October 15-30.

Keep Your Laws Off My Body
Dirs. Catherine (Saalfield) Gund & Zoe Leonard, 13 min, USA
Intimate scenes of gentle sexuality and domesticity set to the cadence of a projector are juxtaposed with images of police and sirens to highlight the intrusion of America’s laws on queer people and women’s bodies in healthcare and sexual expression.

DIVA TV: Target City Hall
Dirs. DIVA TV Collective, 27 min, USA
The first tape produced by “Damned Interfering Video Activists” (DIVA TV) exhibits a range of styles and statements on ACT UP’s massive demonstration at City Hall on March 28, 1989, to protest state-level governmental negligence in the AIDS crisis.

DIVA TV: Pride ‘69-89
Dirs. DIVA TV Collective, 27 min, USA
This documents NYC’s Gay and Lesbian Pride week, 1989, including the homophobic gay-bashing in Sheridan Square during the 20th anniversary celebration of the Stonewall Riots, often cited as the birth of the modern Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movement.

DIVA TV: Like a Prayer
Dirs. DIVA TV Collective, 29 min, USA
This tape analyzes the collaborative demonstration “Stop the Church” by WHAM! and ACT UP/NY on December 10, 1990, against Cardinal John O’Connor and the Roman Catholic Church’s murderous stand on abortion rights, safer sex and homosexuality.

Part of the 38th Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival