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Tongues Untied is a 1989 American video essay 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: 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.
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- Marlon Riggs
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- 5 min
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 to challenge the silence and shame around sexual and racial difference.
- Poetry Performance, Featuring
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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...
William L Tongues Untied definitely has a few years on it stylistically, with its monologues staring directly into the camera evoking '90s Public Service Announcements, no matter how poetic the...
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Tongues Untied stands as a painful but innovational documentary about the experiences of black gay men residing in the United States in the adverse period of the late nineteen eighties. Made by Texas-born filmmaker and gay rights activist Marlon Riggs, it's a lyrical bombardment of portraits and anecdotes narrated straight to the camera.
