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Thomas Block Rubnitz (April 2, 1956 – August 12, 1992) was an American painter, video artist, and AIDS activist. He was a part of the New York City drag world of the late 1980s, and he has been described as "an exuberant ethnographer of the East Village queer scene." [1]
“Community Drag Theater”—an outdoor screening organized by UnionDocs, Visual AIDS, and Video Data Bank—collects ten years of work by the hallucinogenic gay video maker and drag impresario Tom Rubnitz.
Tom Rubnitz. Over the course of the 1980s and up until his untimely death from HIV/AIDS related complications in 1992, Tom Rubnitz captured the personalities and energy of the East Village scene in his loony, anarchic, and hallucigenically-colored short videos.
Tom Rubnitz. Born 1956 - Chicago, Illinois. Died 1992. A quintessential New York underground film/video artist, the late Tom Rubnitz took a bite out of the Big Apple and spat it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color.
Aug 1, 2023 · In "Listen to This," Tom Rubnitz, weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz’s loss and ...
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Jun 13, 2023 · This is the seriously unserious television landscape of gay video artist Tom Rubnitz. Born 1956 in Chicago, Rubnitz used the camera to make sparkling exaggerations of the mass media of his day — especially broadcast television.
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Listen To This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary Queer discourse. Tom Rubnitz weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz’s loss and anger is palpable.
