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Tongues Untied is a 1989 American experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill and Brian Freeman. The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference."
Tongues Untied is a 1989 documentary and performance film that explores the challenges and struggles of being a queer African American man. It features poetry, interviews, music and dance, and challenges the silence and stigma around sexual and racial difference.
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Tongues Untied: Directed by Marlon Riggs. With Marlon Riggs, Michael Bell, Kerrigan Black, Blackberri. A documentary about the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States of America.
Tongues Untied. Marlon Riggs’ delivers a visionary documentary that sings the style, culture, and oppressions unique to gay Black men. Presented with deep compassion, “Tongues Untied” remains a visionary document on Black queer culture. Director: Marlon Riggs. Year: 1989. Genre: Documentary.
Tongues Untied. Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1989 • United States. Marlon Riggs’s landmark documentary uses poetry, personal testimony, rap, and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others) to describe the homophobia and racism faced by Black gay men.
Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied rises above the 'deeply personal' — far above it — in exploring what it means to be black and gay. Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at...
Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1989 • United States Marlon Riggs’s landmark documentary uses poetry, personal testimony, rap, and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others) to...
