ALCF Jim Hubbard Films Gay Pride New York 1987 Clip 5003

About

This clip (5003) is part of the Jim Hubbard Lesbian/Gay Community Film Footage. The collection includes moving image footage shot by filmmaker Jim Hubbard.

“I started making films in 1974. In 1978, I began filming the Lesbian & Gay community. I have continued to film demonstrations and other public events and parties, gatherings and other more private moments of the Queer community ever since. I have always considered this footage to be home movies for the queer community.

The footage originates on Regular-8, Super-8 and 16mm. Almost all of the footage is hand-processed in order to use color to enhance the emotional impact of the image. Hand-processing also allowed me to film at night in very low light and, by push-processing, to make the image visible. When I film demonstrations, I am not seeking to record the mass movement, but to find individuals in the crowd, to evoke the diversity of the multitude and to try to unearth the meaning of the event. The films include the protests against the making in Greenwich Village of the movie Cruising in the Summer of 1979, the protests in New York after the light sentence given to Dan White for the assassination of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone of San Francisco. The footage also comprises Gay Pride Marches from 1983, 1987, and 1988 and the Gay Pride Run of 1985. There are also some ACT UP protests in Albany, and a Kiss-In and footage from an AIDS Candlelight Vigil on Christopher Street in 1988. All the footage was shot by Jim Hubbard except for 200 feet of Regular-8 that was shot by Roger Jacoby (with shots of Roger by someone unknown). This footage is of his then-lover Ondine, the Andy Warhol Superstar, and Sally Dixon, who headed the Film Section of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and was a great supporter of Roger’s films. Other films include footage shot at the first two Gay Pride Runs that took place in New York in 1982 and 1983, shot on Super-8. There is additional footage from the anti-Cruising demonstrations in the summer of 1979. The films also include Pride Marches from 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988. All those marches were shot in 16mm and hand-processed. The big surprise from this group is a 50 foot reel of Super-8 shot by Barbara Hammer. Barbara gave this reel to me the last time we saw each other before she died. She told me that it is footage of me shot at the Berlin International Film Festival, though I’m not sure what year. It could have been 1999 or 2009.” ~ Jim Hubbard

This collection was conserved and digitally captured through the 2018 and 2019 Al Larvick National Grant awarded to Jim Hubbard by the Al Larvick Conservation Fund (ALCF) in partnership with its sponsor Pro8mm. For more information about the portion of this collection supported through ALCF, visit

https://www.allarvickfund.org/jim-hubbard-lesbiangay-community-film-footage

Please respect this maker’s Creative Commons Licensing of “Prohibit Commercial Use”. To inquire about permission and/or licensing of this footage, contact Jim Hubbard at: jimhubbardnyc@gmail.com. Thank you.

Collection Specifications:

Original collection format: 8mm, Super 8 film, 16mm

Master digital format: 8mm, Super 8 footage captured at 2k resolution of 2048x1556. 16mm footage captured at 4k resolution of 3840 × 2160.

2018 grant: Length/feet or running time: Approx. 200ft of 8mm, 1,075ft of Super 8, 2,350ft of 16mm

2019 grant: Length/feet or running time: Approx. 675ft of 8mm/Super 8 and 2550ft of 16mm

Lab work: Pro8mm www.pro8mm.com

Archive

Internet Archive, in Home movies

Licence or status

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Jim Hubbard

Language

Silent

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