-Documentary by Marlon Riggs
-Film released in 1989
-Run Time: 55 minutes
-Producer is Vivian Kleiman
-Won Experimental/Independent Film Award from the 1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association
-Plot: The world of gay black men is often insular and lonely, fraught with the pain of rejection by a mainstream society that neither understands nor tries to accept their lives. During this time, racism and homophobia cut deep. Marlon Riggs takes the viewer inside that world to experience its special joys and pain. Personal accounts, poetry, music, and dance are used to present voices, tongues untied, to tell of this often muted existence.
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1 comment:
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put Riggs in context of the queer film time line of the 90's as discussed in the book.
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