United in Anger Screening - Chicago

​Visual AIDS is pleased to distribute United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, a new film by director Jim Hubbard, produced by Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard for Day With(out) Art/World AIDS Day.

UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP is the first feature-length documentary about ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a small group of people came together to change the world and save each other’s lives. The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of exhilarating major actions with additional information about these historic events that forced the U.S. government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. UNITED IN ANGER reveals the group’s complex culture while also exploring the profound grief, sexiness, and incredible energy of ACT UP.

Preview the trailer at www.unitedinanger.com.

Co-presented by the Gene Siskel Film Center with support from the Art Institute of Chicago Department of Contemporary Art and School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Departments of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation and the Sullivan Galleries in the SAIC Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies.