We are delighted to invite you to a film screening!

Jim Hubbard

“Nostalgia” and “Elegy in the Streets”

Tuesday, April 16, 2024
8:15 PM
at Kinoteka
(in the Palace of Culture)

You can get 3 OZN points for participating in this event.

Where?

Kinoteka
Pałac Kultury i Nauki, Plac Defilad 1

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What?

Jim Hubbard has been making experimental films that explore lesbian and gay activism and community-building since the mid-1970s. In 1987, he co-founded MIX NYC, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival with the writer and activist Sarah Schulman, and in 2012 he directed and co-produced the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012). Hubbard and Schulman also coordinate the ACT UP Oral History Project, a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.

The filmmaker will be present for an audience Q&A after the screening.

Tickets available at the cinema box office (19 PLN). Polish subtitles.

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