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Please Hold is an open ended journey with how grief changes over time and in community and with different formats of records of loss. It is not nostalgic, didactic, or rigid. It allows viewers to be in grief as they feel it, as is true for all those speaking in the film.
Director
Feature docs: Scale: Ending the Bush Agenda in the Media Age (2007, Director), Video Remains (2005, director); Dear Gabe (2003, director)
Alexandra Juhasz
Producer
Feature Narratives: The Watermelon Woman (1996 and 2016 re-release, producer); The OWLS (producer, 2010); Shorts: Bad Bosses Go to Hell (1997); DiAna's Hair Ego ReMix (2017); I Want to Leave a Legacy (2023)
James Robert Lamb
Key Cast
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski
Key Cast
Theodore Kerr
Key Cast
Pato Hebert
Key Cast
Jih-Fei Cheng
Key Cast
Marty Fink
Key Cast
Please Hold
| Please Hold | |
| Documentary Feature Films, Experimental Films | |
| grief, AIDS, LGBTQ, memories, personal property, community, records of loss, illness | |
| 70 minutes | |
| United States | |
| 2024 | |
| English |
Synopsis:
Please Hold is an experimental documentary engaging with decades of activist media, two death bed videos, and the wisdom of many living AIDS workers, as we all sit together in one (changing) format, video—VHS, hi-8, digital, Zoom—to address these and other questions: How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves of loved one now lost, and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go?Please Hold is an open ended journey with how grief changes over time and in community and with different formats of records of loss. It is not nostalgic, didactic, or rigid. It allows viewers to be in grief as they feel it, as is true for all those speaking in the film.
Credits:
Alexandra JuhaszDirector
Feature docs: Scale: Ending the Bush Agenda in the Media Age (2007, Director), Video Remains (2005, director); Dear Gabe (2003, director)
Alexandra Juhasz
Producer
Feature Narratives: The Watermelon Woman (1996 and 2016 re-release, producer); The OWLS (producer, 2010); Shorts: Bad Bosses Go to Hell (1997); DiAna's Hair Ego ReMix (2017); I Want to Leave a Legacy (2023)
James Robert Lamb
Key Cast
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski
Key Cast
Theodore Kerr
Key Cast
Pato Hebert
Key Cast
Jih-Fei Cheng
Key Cast
Marty Fink
Key Cast