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Robert Hilferty (December 14, 1959 – July 24, 2009) was a New York based journalist, filmmaker and AIDS activist. ==Career== Hilferty began his career in 1988 working as a production assistant for Robert Altman on ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'' and ''Tanner '88''.〔(Los Angeles Times )〕〔(IMDb website )〕 Although he was HIV-negative,〔 Hilferty became an AIDS activist following the death of his lover. He shot video footage at ''Act Up'''s December 1989 St. Patrick’s Cathedral demonstration which he used to create the documentary ''Stop the Church''. ''PBS'' initially planned to broadcast the film in August 1991 but then canceled the broadcast, citing the film’s numerous denunciations of the Roman Catholic Church and calling it "inappropriate for distribution because of its pervasive tone of ridicule."〔(New York Times )〕 Hilferty responded that ''PBSs decision was a "cowardly and unprincipled" form of censorship. Various local ''PBS'' stations, including New York's ''WNET'', aired it in protest.〔(Playbill )〕 Hilferty followed ''Stop the Church'' with ''I Wrapped a Giant Condom Over Jesse Helms' House'' which documented a September 1991 demonstration by ''TAG'', an activist group related to ''Act Up''.〔(Gay City News )〕〔(New Yorker magazine )〕 In 1991, Hilferty completed a screenplay, ''Comes to Shove'' which he described as "an action film" — a pun on ''Act Up'''s strategy of direct action, but the film was never produced.〔 In 1992, Hilferty obtained partial funding for ''Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer'',〔()〕 a documentary about composer Milton Babbitt with whom Hilferty had become acquainted during his years at Princeton. ) In 1993, Hilferty shot footage of Babbitt and conducted interviews with some of Babbitt's former students, including composer Stephen Sondheim, but did not complete the film. It was completed in 2010 by another former Babbitt student Laura Karpman, and presented on NPR online upon Babbitt's death in January 2011.〔()〕 Hilferty also served as cinematographer for the 1996 documentary ''I Was a Jewish Sex Worker''.〔 From the mid-1990s until his death, Hilferty worked as a journalist for publications such as ''Artforum'', ''Bloomberg News'', ''Gramophone'', ''New York Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', ''Opera News'', ''Playbill'', ''Stagebill'' and ''The Village Voice'', writing about acting, architecture, classical music, fashion and gardening.〔〔 While working for ''Bloomberg TV'', he conducted on-camera interviews with Marisa Tomei, Mickey Rourke, Philip Roth, Renée Fleming, William Gibson and others.〔(Time Out )〕〔(Bloomberg.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Hilferty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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