Collections/October 2025

The Ceriterion Channel | Two Documentaries by David Weissman and Bill Weber

Vivid, stirring portraits of San Francisco’s gay life and psychedelic counterculture, these documentaries from director David Weissman—made in collaboration with Bill Weber—tell essential stories of queer community, creativity, and resilience. A joyous celebration of the eponymous gender-bending burlesque collective who took the city by storm in the late 1960s and early ’70s, The Cockettes brings a colorful chapter of hippy history to life in all its anarchic glory. In We Were Here , Weissman movingly recounts the coming of AIDS to San Francisco in the 1980s, capturing not only the fear and devastation of the era but also the inspiring courage and compassion of those who came together to fight for survival.

2 films — 0 on the Channel, 2 unavailable