Testing The Limits: NYC

"Testing The Limits: NYC" refers to a 1987 documentary video by the Testing the Limits Collective, which documented AIDS activism in New York City. The video captured community activists, health workers, and demonstrations by groups like ACT UP, protesting the federal government's inaction on the AIDS epidemic. It was created by a collective that included Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, Sandra Elgear, Robyn Hutt, and David Meieran.

Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism. The collective produced a short work, Testing the Limits : NYC, in 1987 and a feature-length documentary Voices from the Front in 1991. The collective's final production was a four-part documentary The Question of Equality which chronicled the gay and lesbian struggle for civil rights. The Testing the Limits Records consist of both organizational records and video footage shot by the collective.

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