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Director: Atlas, Charles
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Michael Clark, the sexy, internationally acclaimed twenty-three-year-old "rock star" of the British dance world is the subject of Hail the New Puritan, produced by Charles Atlas for Channel 4 in Great Britain. Atlas employs a fictional/documentary style to present a wild chronicle of a day in Clark's life. Clever shooting and editing accentuate the superb dancing of Clark's company and the unabashed sexuality that infuses the punk star's work.Hail the New Puritan begins with a skillfully executed dream sequence and follows Clark from waking through returning home at dawn the following morning. During this very active day Clark charms his way through an interview with a dance critic, works out with his company, performs in a surreal skit with members of the post-punk band The Fall, travels to a cemetery to participate in the filming of an underground featurette, has an erotic encounter in a mirrored bedroom, leads the action at a nightclub and finally heads home, where he dances to exhaustion to Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight." At the heart of Hail the New Puritan are ten principal dance sequences that Atlas weaves into a colorful time capsule of the punk scene of 1980s London.

Directors: Aldighieri, Merril
Tripician, Joe
Year: 1986
Synopsis: A gay male erotic music video which is part of a longer work, Chance of a Lifetime, to be shown later this evening. This segment depicts group sex against a background of gray metal grid, bodies standing out like living sculpture in an industrial environment.

Director: Parmar, Pratibha
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Emergence focuses on four black and Third World women artists whose work addresses the diasporan experience, including Audre Lorde and Palestinian performance artist Mona Hartoum.

Director: Tuft, Sarah
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Sarah Tuft's Don't Make Me Up is a snappy, musical request of Madison Avenue.

Director: Lewis, John
Year: 1986
Synopsis: What happens when the hot man you have invited over for dinner is making advances you are too afraid to respond to because you haven't dealt with AIDS panic yet. That is the sitcom beginning of this gay male erotic drama which shows that even New York guys still want to have fun and are doing it safely with condoms. Included is a guest appearance by Casey Donovan.

Director: Marshall, Stuart
Year: 1986
Synopsis: In this three-part tape made for Channel 4, Britain's showcase for innovative and experimental work, videographer Stuart Marshall thoughtfully examines the historical and social factors influencing current reactions to AIDS and homosexuality. The first of this impressive tape compares 19th-century British attitudes toward disease to present ones. Marshall focuses on a particularly sensational tabloid story about a person with AIDS in order to demonstrate how inbred bias against homosexuality in media coverage of AIDS ruthlessly obscures the medical aspects of the crisis. The tape argues against the misrepresentation of AIDS as a "gay disease," implicitly suggesting that AIDS be seen as a disease that affects human beings, some of whom are gay. The second part of Bright Eyes is a stylized comparison of the treatment of gays by the Nazis and others to police/governmental actions against homosexuals today. The poetic rhythms of the language of persecution underscore the pervasiveness of homophobia in contemporary society. Political activist and person with AIDS Michael Callen concludes the third part of Bright Eyes by recreating a dramatic speech he made in front of New York legislators. Callen vigorously asserts the need for more funding for research and care for those with AIDS.

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