Tongues Untied

Showings

SNF Parkway Theatre 1 Fri, Oct 18 6:30 PM
Film Info
Genre:Documentary
Year:1990
Runtime:55
Language:English
Production Country:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Marlon Riggs
Screenwriter:Joseph Beam
Reginald Jackson
Steve Langley
Chris Harris
Alan Miller
Donald Woods
Essex Hemphill
Marlon Riggs
Cast:Essex Hemphill
Brian Freeman
Michael Bell
Willi Ninja
Kerrigan Black

Description

As director Marlon Riggs explained, “Tongues United was motivated by a singular imperative: to shatter America’s brutalizing silence around matters of sexual and racial difference.” Quickly becoming a flashpoint in public debates around race, sexuality, and public decency, Riggs’ masterful experimental documentary clearly accomplished this goal. Movingly poetic, erotic, angry and beautiful, Tongues Untied destroys longstanding myths surrounding what it means to be a black gay man.