POSITIVE (1990).

Positive
by Rosa von Praunheim
Excerpt from Positive, Rosa von Praunheim's 1990 landmark movie depicting the AIDS crisis in New York City
“Positive” is one part of a trilogy of films about AIDS from German director and gay activist Rosa von Praunheim. In the year 1989, 100,000 people in the United States had AIDS and 22,000 lived in New York City, so Rosa von Praunheim travels to New York–the East Coast centre of the AIDS epidemic–to make his documentary. Hoping to list the assistance of a local filmmaker and journalist, AIDS afflicted Phil Zwickler, the two meet, and Zwickler questions why he should become involved with von Praunheim charging, “You make these voyeuristic nightmarish films.”