Stuart
Gaffney
Stuart Gaffney
has been making film and video since 1994. His works have screened
worldwide at a wide variety of venues such as broadcast television
(KQED's "Living Room Festival," WYBE's "Through the
Lens"), cinematheques (American Cinematheque, San Francisco Cinemathque),
museums (Guggenheim Museum, Fine Arts Museum of Boston), arts centers
(Pacific Film Archive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), galleries
(Art in General, Lohman Art Gallery), conferences (National AIDS Update
Conference, Hapa Issues Forum Conference), World AIDS Day events (Offener
Kanal Hamburg World AIDS Day Program, Budapest Positive Film Festival),
video festivals (Dallas Video Festival, Brussels Mondial de la Video),
as
Well as film festivals (Cork International International Short Film
Festival, Palm Springs Short Film Festival).
In December 2000, the Guggenheim Museum screened Stuart's videos "Virus"
and "Bareback" as part of the "Fever in the Archive"
program of AIDS Activist Video.
The "Stuart Gaffney Special" at the 13th International Festival
of Gay and Lesbian Films in Torino, Italy (1998) featured a wide variety
of Stuart's short works on AIDS, queer and Eurasian identities, brought
together in a single program for the first time.
Stuart was born and raised in Milwaukee. He studied English literature
at Yale University and learned film and videomaking at San Francisco
State University, City College of San Francisco, the Bay Area Video
Coalition, and the Film Arts Foundation.
