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Peter Friedman
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There are No Direct Flights from New York to Marseille (1998, posted 2023)
In 1993, I completed a video diary of a gay couple with AIDS, who died before the footage was edited. That film was "Silverlake Life", and because it had a high profile release, I was active for a long time promoting it, speaking as a gay man myself about gay and AIDS issues to the press and to the public at many film festivals. Eventually I felt like all I ever talked about was gay life, and I needed to move beyond that, to have my gay identity be just a part of my larger self. So I moved away from New York to Marseille, France, and tried to be "post-gay", but it didn't work. I found myself drawn a newly emerging gay community in Marseille in 1997. So this film, "There are No Direct Flig...
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The Big Picture (2002, 4 x 3)
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An experimental visual essay combining images of Earth seen from outer space with moments of daily life shot various places around the world. The aim is to evoke the simultaneous existence of the "big picture" (i.e. the universe) and ordinary daily life.
Remember to Come Back
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A haiku in search of serenity during the lockdown, 2020
Remember to Come Back
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A 3-minute haiku about searching for serenity during anxious, pandemic times.
The Devil is in the Detail: Robert Carsen Reinvents CANDIDE (3 min. trailer for a documentary)
Просмотров 6535 лет назад
"The Devil is in the Detail: Robert Carsen Reinvents CANDIDE" (Completion December 2019). Feature-length cinéma vérité documentary portrait of one of the world's greatest stage directors at work, shot over the course of a year. From his first sketches in pencil until opening night, we witness Carsen's creative processes as he adapts Leonard Bernstein's 1956 CANDIDE, which Bernstein wrote right ...
Roy Smeck- El Mago de las Cuerdas (Wizard of the Strings)
Просмотров 1205 лет назад
Hay un mucho más alto nivel de calidad de esta película aquí ruclips.net/video/JoQa4RfIg3g/видео.html Este premio de la Academia nominado a corto plazo de 1983 retrata uno de los músicos más influyentes de América de los años 1920 y 1930. Roy Smeck fue uno de los primeros en popularizar la guitarra, la guitarra hawaiana, el banjo y el ukelele. Desde sus primeros días de vodevil en la década de ...
I TALK TO ANIMALS
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A documentary Written, Produced, Edited, and Directed by Peter Friedman . Samantha is an "animal therapist and psychic" who has convinced skeptical pet owners, zoo keepers, and race horse trainers that she really can "talk" to their animals. Here we see her at work counselling race horses in need of leisure time, "depressed "cats, and negotiating with naughty ants. And we hear from owners and t...
In the Name of Christ - Scott Lively, the TIp of the Iceberg
Просмотров 2035 лет назад
A portrait of one of the world's worst anti-LGBT activist/bigots, single-handedly and successfully lobbying for anti-gay legislation abroad, including life in prison in Uganda and anti "gay propaganda" laws in the Russian Federation. This piece is compiled entire from archival footage found on youtube and on human rights groups' website. Lively is currently being sued for crimes against humanity;
Fighting in Southwest Louisiana (restored 2019)
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1991. A better quality version is here vimeo.com/167148561 A mailman openly fights AIDS and anti-gay prejudice in the rural American South. When he's not delivering mail, Danny Cooper lives with his lover Ben in a remote town in the deep south. Far from the sophistication and relative tolerance of urban centers, Danny has been openly gay since his teens. He has paid a price for his honesty it c...
THE LIFE & TIMES OF LIFE & TIMES: The Biology of Aging
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Independent filmmaking meets science once again in this 1998 hour-long follow-up to Death by Design ruclips.net/video/4NytzTLnyKM/видео.html., The life of any one individual is of no importance to nature. That is why we age. Now, scientists are beginning to manipulate the aging process by altering genes which determine how long we live. As Judy Campisi of Berkeley lab, California puts it "For t...
Silverlake Life Epilogue - best quality
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17-min. epilogue to Tom Joslin's 1993 AIDS video diary Silverlake Life, winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, a Peabody Award, and the Prix Italia in Rome. The complete film is here ruclips.net/video/YjGVT4BUG-w/видео.html This epilogue features footage shot by Elaine Mayes in 1991 and a 2003 conversation with Elaine and Silverlake Life Co-Director Peter F...
"Silverlake Life" Epilogue see link below for better quality upload
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WATCH HERE INSTEAD - MUCH BETTER AUDIO - ruclips.net/video/BqQWnXLISjk/видео.html 17-min. Silverlake Life Epilogue released as a "bonus extra" on the US DVD, 2003. Includes footage of Tom's surviving partner Mark, shortly before his own death in 1991, emptying Mark's house after he died, and a conversation between Silverlake Life cameraperson and Tom & Mark's close friend Elaine Mayes, and co-d...
Roy Smeck: El Mago de las Cuerdas (Subtítulos en español)
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Roy Smeck: El Mago de las Cuerdas (Subtítulos en español)
Roy Smeck: The Wizard of the Strings (best quality upload)
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Roy Smeck: The Wizard of the Strings (best quality upload)
Thank you for this film and your perspective. It‘s very moving. Best regards from zurich 💜
wonderfull film. thanks for making it accesible here🫶
Love this! Roy was a total musical entertainer. Light hearted, virtuosic and supremely confident. Then he topped off his career by being a great teacher. Truly a life well lived!
Rip Tom and Mark😢you guys didn't deserve this at all
Were they not monogamous? How did HIV enter their lives?
Could've been someone's saliva from the same cup they were drinking out of a number of things that don't involve sex can make you contract hiv
@@sarraconnolly3774Cant get it from a cup smh. Has to be open wound (tears in vag or anus - to be graphic) or open sore, sharing needles, or by blood transfusion. Its actually not that easy to get. Hepatitis is much more easier to spread. Most gay men WERE promiscuous in the late 70's- 80's with the bath houses and underground gay clubs. And not using protection being number one reason. Before settling down with a partner - most gay men (like heterosexuals) have had a former partner. You have no idea who all they slept with before you.
Wow This man was a fighter.
Any chance of a restauration in HD (or even 4K)?
No but a better quality upload wll be available before the end of September 2024, here vimeo.com/877536669
BLACKSTAR has been restored to 4K here vimeo.com/690199560/deabd31836?share=copy
This disease literally sucked the life right out of its victims & for those who wanted to keep their sexuality & status a secret, the outward/visible symptoms (ks/wasting/etc) of aids pretty much made that impossible. There obviously isn't/wasn't anything about this disease that's good,but if you had to find at least one thing that could be seen as such,it was the fact that symptoms didn't appear for 10 years in a large percentage of its victims,which could be seen as both fortunate or unfortunate. Fortunate = you didn't have any symptoms to make your life miserable Unfortunate = you weren't even aware you were carrying a deadly disease around so you were infecting others unintentionally. 1:08:40 😮 1:08:40
I watched this in the early days of a relationship with a beautiful woman who I’m still with and still love. I hope we can go out to heaven the way these two souls have.
Is Blackstar available to watch anywhere?
Yes. Here vimeo.com/690199560/deabd31836
@@peterfriedman7193 Thank you!!
I guess the lesson here is to date women and stay away from any sort of homosexuality because this is what it leads to.
I can't imagine that someone watched this absolutely heart-breaking film, and that's all you took-away from it. Maybe try having some empathy.
@@antimaxsmacks I spoke against homosexuality not the individual people. Sure it may be sad but think about the cities of Sodom and Gommorah God rained ash and destroyed many people due to this lifestyle. All the pride stuff like what we saw at the opening of the olympic ceremonies in France a few days ago, this lifestyle is being shoved down everyone's throats as if it's an accomplishment, but it is not how God wants us to live. We must follow his rules and not chase perversion.
@@Yizee Not to mention,it's God who people should be getting closer to instead of a witch doctor like was seen in this film.Hopefully Tom and Mark asked for/found salvation before each of them passed.Everytime someone's friend, significant other,brother, sister,etc,etc passes away and they go to their funeral, everyone that attends always says "well at least that individual is in a better place now",but there's probably alot more that don't go to Heaven than do in many cases.
@@wbrockstar9550 Yeah good point. And I am not trying to judge or anything I just see all those horrible skin lesions all over his body and it all comes down to the choice to have sex with another guy. I don't know why that lifestyle is celebrated nowadays instead of talking people out of living that way. I guess it's easy to understand though since Satan and his minions have seem to have gained control and push their satanic agenda's on the the world. I wish we had God back in our country and other countries because it's getting worse and worse. I guess the bible tells us this will happen so all we can do is try to fight against it the best we can. If God didn't exist and Satan didn't exist they wouldn't have done a mockery of Jesus at the olympics. And to all those athletes who stayed to compete and didn't walk out and show support for Jesus just shocks me. We need God back in this world! Sorry for the whole paragraph of words to read.
@@YizeeI agree! Disregarding the truth at the expense of not hurting someone’s feelings is utterly ridiculous. Every guideline in the Bible is to protect us from bad consequences. It is not that those consequences are God’s punishment, but they are the consequences that happen by default. That’s how our world is designed. Same thing goes with fornication in heterosexual relationships.
He was such a sweet man, with a great sense of humour. RIP Mark.
Looks worse than Holocaust, what an awful disease. Heartbreaking
Had to revisit this film. Hope everyone’s doing well these days!
In my little circle we'll all doing great, thanks. Just preoccupied with US election & Project 2025...
@@peterfriedman7193 Glad you’re doing ok,Peter. Now I have to ask. Is there an extended version of ‘Met him on a Sunday’ where Mark and Peter walk off camera laughing? It sounds silly to want to see such a thing but I’ve gotten so deep into this film that I really want to experience every moment of it! With that being said..I revisited the film Blackstar today! Love the nostalgia! Tom truly had a filmmakers vision and belonged behind and in front of that camera! And he couldn’t have passed his craft and knowledge on to a better filmmaker such as yourself 😉
@@jasonwhite7452 Yes. It's the final scene in BLACKSTAR, which is here: vimeo.com/manage/videos/690199560/deabd31836
Thank you mr Friedman for giving us the opportunity to see this naked and raw documentary again.
I was given an opportunity to say many important things that needed to be said when I completed it in 1993. I'm gratified and sometimes a bit surprised that and it's still in active distribution worldwide, and that I am still getting comments like yours - which mean quite a lot to me. So, I thank you, too.
Thank you Tom, Mark and Peter. ❤
Their love is so heart warming. Currently balling at the clips from when they were in love pre-aids 😭
thank you for sharing. I can see that Mark tried to stay mostly positive through the whole disease...the image of him dancing to Johnny Clegg sticks with me
How brave of Mark and Tom to do this ❤
I always wondered who helped take care of Mark?!? :(
A few friends, and AIDS service organizations.
Very hard watch. Rip to both. Is Blackstar available to watch?
Blackstar is here vimeo.com/209640111
Are chrysler Slant 6 engines really as reliable as they say?
Kinda ironic how Mark said "I don't think so dear,not when the msg comes before the chicken".He was weeks/days away from dying,yet he was still worried about the things he was eating.
Good point! But that sort of vigilance helped him survive as long as he did.
@@peterfriedman7193 He was a fighter, very determined to survive. Just a few more years and there would be effective treatments. Beyond sad. RIP Mark
Bless Tom and Mark - I am glad Mark tried to keep optimistic in his last months. Two beautiful souls and I hope whatever happens after this life they are still together somewhere. ⚘️
Despite the horrible disease, and their declining health Tom and Mark continued to love and support each other. RIP to two wonderful men, and all those who died of Aids. Also sending strength to those living with HIV. ⚘️
Even for people that wanted to keep their sexuality a secret during the early days of aids,this disease wouldn't allow that.Kaposi and the excessive weight loss this community got stricken with was a physical marker that victims couldn't avoid.Except for one video I've seen where one guys face and neck were covered completely by one massive KS lesion,Mark is the next worse case of KS I've seen. These two guys were brave to have allowed all of us outsiders into their lives to watch them from the very beginning of this part of their lives to the end of it.Their upbeat spirit (especially Mark) said alot about their character,strength & bravery that they remained high spirited up to the end regardless of their pain & suffering & the stigma from the outside world that was judgemental,prejudice and at times down right cruel.May a day soon come where the medical community finds a cure for the millions that have to live with this every single day. May Tom and Mark RIP.
Cool upload!!
That must’ve been so shocking, scary and sad to witness in a store?! I’ve never seen a person with AIDS or AIDS related symptoms and infections, such as KS, what Mark had here. But in the 80’s and 90’s it was probably not uncommon to see gay men with AIDS presenting those symptoms. Still it must’ve been shocking to see, very, very sad…
This man is great at string instruments. 🙂
I would exchange every bug chaser and giver to have had these men survive long enough to have benefitted from the meds we have today for it. R.I.P Chaps ❤️
It blows my mind that there is such a thing and people who wanna be bug chasers.This is a good example of how bad this world and society has gotten when people strive to become infected purposely, especially considering how horrible hiv/aids can be & who's to say the meds of today are guaranteed to work on every patient that gets them.Theres been plenty of history of medication becoming less and less effective so who's to say it couldn't happen with aids?? Such foolish people in this world.
So brave We miss these great souls
Amazing. He was the pioneer of guitar in America. He was doing it before all my guitar heroes in the 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's. He paved the way and was so talented.
Roy was always stopping to make sure and point out to all the other listeners in the room, to listen to the instrument being played at it's very highest level..........Which he's playing at the time.....while in the middle of the piece....AND without creating a single flaw in the melody, or rhythm.
Tom, Mark je vous aime❤
6:40 1926 .... $1250 ... That's nearly $20,000 in todays dollars... WOW...
Very, very difficult to watch...... 😢
Just found the epilogue for the first time. So grateful to have some sense of closure for Mark. Though he never knew me, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing him.
Thank you for creating this. That’s all I have to say. Shocking and heartbreaking for sure but extremely important
He died a year after Tom died...if you know silver lake life.
You really have to think that if Aids was killing straight people it would have been cured in a few years. The insane amount of time it took to just create medication to make it a chronic disease is disgraceful.
Im from Romania tanks you Peter !! RIP Tom & Mark ❤😪😪
Especially loved the part where Mark spoke of being visited by Tom after he had passed over. Reminds me that this life is only temporary, and that energy is never destroyed, it just changes form. Tom stayed with him and right next to him, but minus the physical pain and suffering. A harrowing documentary, but also heartwarming as it captures the resiliance of the human spirit, and its determination to survive and embrace all things, against the odds.
Roy was my Guitar Teacher in the nineteen sixties. He was a kind Man and gave me a True Love for music, I then followed his suggestion that if I applied myself to reading music that my knowledge would give me the ability to play anything I wanted not only on the guitar but all instruments I would eventually play. Roy and wife were very kind people to me. What a Great gift in my Life to know them.
Ive watched SilverLake Life so many times.....to see Mark .....is just as heartbreaking! This is the most moving documentary Ive ever seen ❤ They have to be extremely proud of how the film turned out!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I have watched the profoundly moving documentary a few times over the years and never have forgotten Tom and Mark. The film was so personal, so incredible in many ways and it really touches you the love and commitment these two beautiful men had for each other. Mark seemed so strong and still showed his sense of humour in dark moments. What amazing men they were, you felt like they were dear old friends. I wish I had known them personally. There is an amazing comfort in knowing they had such amazing people/friends who helped them to complete their work/story. Sad to hear that Paul also died. Everyone who was involved in putting this film together were some of the best people you could ask for in this world. Such kindness, respect and love shone through. I think this is one of the most beautiful and important pieces of film ever to have been made and has certainly made a difference in my life not only as an education about the horrendous journey of AIDS but it really opened my eyes and heart to know that such beauty and kindness amongst the darkness existed then as it does now. My heart goes out to anyone who has battled this dreadful disease and also to those who have lost a loved one. To the people who supported anyone fighting AIDS, you are heroes and you deserve the world. Love to you all & thank you again Peter for sharing this with us x
I've literally received thousands of comments and yours is one of the very best. Thank you for all your sensitivities and insights. There are times when everything seems pointless and then out of nowhere you write me and I see it's not. Sending you love and gratitude from Paris.
Thank you, Tom and Mark, for a deeply informative and heartfelt look into your lives. I was diagnosed in 1996 at 25 and 28 years later still kicking, although I could stand to lose several pounds and my only real health problems are congenital or age related. Knock on wood, I'm doing pretty well at 52 years old.
I have see the movie docu .was so sad but beautiful Rip ❤️🙏🏼
This is realy a masterpiece! Many thanks for this great documentary!!
Hi Peter! First off, excellent work!! *Chefs kiss* ❤ there's something I've been wondering...Tom stated he got tested first and came out positive and then Mark did too, did they know who Infected who? Maybe this was something that wouldn't make a difference given the love they had for each other but that's something that I've been wondering, do u happen to know? Ty, blessings!! ☺️ xoxo,
I think about this documentary at least once a month since it was uploaded. I want you to know that this documentary has profoundly impacted the way I view my life and how I choose to continue living it. I don't think I realized how much I wanted to live until I also saw how much I had to lose. I wish Tom and Mark were here, even if it meant never knowing their story in the first place. Thank you for finishing this piece.