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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. Made, in director Marlon Riggs’s own words, to “shatter the nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference,” this radical blend of documentary and performance defies the stigmas surrounding Black gay sexuality in the belief that, as long as shame prevails, liberation cannot be possible.
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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.
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Tongues Untied - The Criterion Channel. 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...
Tongues Untied (1989) is a groundbreaking film that explores the intersections of sexuality, race, and AIDS through poetry, performance, and activism. It features gay Black men loving, resisting, and speaking out against silence and oppression in a homophobic and racist culture.
