In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

Jerry Tartaglia's friend, David Kline, is dying from an infection associated with HIV. This 17 minute short is a reflection on that.

A personal recollection of a time past, when gay identity was a source of joy rather than of mourning.

A.I.D.S has become a convenient excuse to desexualize gay culture and to terminate the gay liberation movement. This film confronts the viewer to...

A short film essay that is a comment on the restoration work that Jerry Tartaglia did for Jack Smith's films. It utilizes material from one of...

Is What Was is an experimental documentary film essay that began as a visual diary of a visit to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin...

Uncompleted 60 minute film starring Ondine and Peggy Gormley. Pope Ondine rages and pontificates on Queer life, the hopelessness of heterosexualism...

A Short History of the Future is a film essay based upon Jerry Tartaglia's study of Leni Riefenstahl’s 1932 film Das Blaue Licht. Selected...

Gay male filmpoem celebrating the loving and the non-destructive.

Masturbation bathed in red light.

Jerry Tartaglia's irreverent papal fashion short.

A film that uses found footage, 19th century photographs of affectionate men, digitized video imagery, and gay ephemera to imagine a past and...

A film that explores the Teleculture's treatment of AIDS as a consumer image.

A short remembrance of growing up gay, searching for an identifiable image on the movie screen. This character chose Bette Davis in All About Eve...