UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage with remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective. The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of a dozen major actions, including Seize Control of the FDA, Stop the Church, and Day of Desperation, with a timeline of many of the other zaps and actions that forced the US government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. UNITED IN ANGER reveals the group’s complex culture–meetings, affinity groups, and approaches to civil disobedience mingle with profound grief, sexiness, and the incredible energy of ACT UP. Before there was Occupy Wall Street or the Arab Spring, there was ACT UP.

With support from the UM Screen Arts and Cultures, UM School of Public Health, UM Romance Languages and Literatures, Ann Arbor Film Festival, HARC HIV/AIDS Resource Center, Visual AIDS New York.

Established with the generous support of UM School of Art and Design , Penny W. Stamps, the Stamps Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities. Additional support is provided by our media sponsor, Michigan Radio.

Events in the Penny Stamps series are always free of charge and open to the public.