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ETHNIC NOTIONS (1986) dir. MARLON RIGGS
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Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)
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generational anger. Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) / The Noise Must Become Music by Fumi Nakamura / Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Anne Carson / The House with the Black Door by James Hutton / Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson
#anger#webweave#webweaving#web weaving#parallels#art#poetry#marlon riggs#fumi nakamura#anne carson#james hutton#jeanette winterson
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"What conservatives are very adept at, and very insightful about -- in ways that people at the center of America and on the left still don't quite get a handle on -- is how culture, not simply government and business and the law, is critical to control. Patterns of representation, ways of either including or excluding, silencing and erasing different communities and their stories, their narratives. Whether it's in the academy or on television or through the National Endowment for the Arts."
- Marlon Riggs, 1992, Black Gay Filmmaker & Artist, interview in New York Times
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Anthem (Marlon Riggs, 1992)
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queer art archive website mockup , 2023, digital
#communications design#fashion institute of technology#graphic designer#graphic design#layout design#webdesign#illustrator#queer art#queer artist#mockup#david wojnarowicz#nan goldin#chantal akerman#wolfgang tillmans#marlon riggs#ryan trecartin
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Black men loving black men is the revolutionary act.
Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs (1989)
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Black Is... Black Ain't (Marlon Riggs, 1994)
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Marlon Riggs, Anthem, 1991
#marlon riggs#queer cinema#queer artist#lgbtq#aids#hiv aids#black cinema#queer resistance#aids and art#aids and cinema
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TONGUES UNITED (1990) dir. MARLON RIGGS
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Tongues Untied (1989)
“Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act.”
In one of the best “short films” (spanning just 5 minutes under the category “feature film”) I have maybe ever seen, filmmaker Marlon Riggs bears his soul in the exploration what Black male homosexuality means in 1980s America and, more importantly, what that identity it means to him. The format of this film is something that I have not witnessed in a very long time. The pace, writing, the cinematography, and the narration work in perfect harmony to create what feels like an anthology poetry book.
Tongues Untied (1989) is a series of art pieces set around the premise that Black Homosexuality is something revolutionary. It is in this way that it relates itself to our reading by Senthorun Raj; Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire. While the film does not relate at all to the latter implication of the title (Online* Queer Desire) it does touch on the beginning observations about Black Queer sexuality in the modern age. In the first couple of pages Raj dissects whiteness and comes to the conclusion that , “...Whiteness, then, is an inherited system of privileges (Han 2006: 3)”. No one featured in Riggs’ film is white, this is a film exclusively about the Black Male same-sex attraction experience, meaning, this is a kind of love that is not “allowed” by said inherited system of privileges; it is in fact looked down upon even as late as the era of 1990s New Queer Cinema in America. The second part of that is that, again, Marlon is exploring Homosexuality and Queerness which is; “Sex that does not conform to this social imaginary is normalised as dangerous to the health and wellbeing of society”. In the case of all of these Riggs’ filmic thesis is proven to be true, Black Men loving Black Men is, indeed, a revolutionary act.
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#30DaysofPride: Day 21- Essex Hemphill
I wrote this post last year when I was interning at CLAGS and so it’s a little CLAGS-centered but I really like this one!!! So today I bring you an important person in the black gay community, Essex Hemphill.
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Essex Hemphill was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeast Washington, DC. A poet and performer known for his political edge, he openly addressed…
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#30DaysOfPride#activism#Essex Hemphill#Hold Tight Gently#lgbt#LGBTQIA#Marlon Riggs#Martin Duberman#queer#queerhistory#trans#visibility
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EPISODE 007: Sundance '92 Selection Ranked
American documentary filmmaking emerged as earlier as film equipment became widely available and affordable. Many young filmmakers sought a collective resurgence in a new era of American cinema, now broadly accessible -- this time it helmed at the heart and gut of independent filmmaking. The quintessential roots of American independent cinema can be found in the films selected for the Sundance Film Festival of 1992, which is available on the Criterion Collection Channel. In this episode on LA CINEASTE, we will sort through and essentially rank the 25 captivating films in the 1992 Sundance Selection. Though many auteurs exceeded with accolades and impressed the new age, others found challenges along the way.
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