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Title Tongues untied / producer, director, Marlon T. Riggs.

Publication Info. [San Francisco?] : Frameline ; [Culver City, Calif.?] : Distributed by Strand Releasing, [2008]
©2007

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 Moore Video  HQ76.27.A37 T683 2008    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD0 (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Note Documentary.
Performer Poetry performance, Essex Hemphill.
Credits Photographer and editor, Marlon T. Riggs.
Note Originally produced in 1989.
Full screen presentation.
Summary In an experimental amalgam of rap music, street poetry, documentary film, and dance, a gay African-American man expresses what it is like to be gay and black in the United States.
Note Bonus features: deleted scenes and outtakes; 1991 interview with the director; interviews with filmmaker Isaac Julien, AIDS activist Phill Wilson, spoken word artist Juba Kalamka and cultural critic Herman Gray.
Awards Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Documentary, 1990 and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award, 1990.
Language Closed-captioned.
Subject African American gay men -- Social conditions.
African American gay men.
Social conditions.
African American gay men -- Race identity.
Homophobia -- United States.
Homophobia.
United States.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Biographical films.
Experimental films.
Experimental films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject African American gay men.
Homophobia.
Racism.
Added Author Riggs, Marlon T.
Hemphill, Essex.
Frameline (Firm)
Strand Releasing (Firm)
Standard No. 712267500529
Music No. 5005-2 Frameline