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.