Tongues Untied (1990)
55m
Running Time
March 16, 1990Release Date
Plot.
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
Where to Watch.



Currently Tongues Untied is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel, OVID, Kanopy
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.

Marlon Riggs
Self / Director / Director of Photography / Original Music Composer / Producer / Editor / Writer

Essex Hemphill
Self - Poetry Performance / Writer

Brian Freeman
Self / Associate Producer

Michael Bell
Self

Willi Ninja
Self

Kerrigan Black
Self

Blackberri
Self

Djola Bernard Branner
Self

Eddie Murphy
Self (archive footage)

Vivian Kleiman
Director of Photography

Joseph Beam
Writer

Steve Langley
Original Music Composer / Writer

Reginald Jackson
Writer

Chris Harris
Writer

Alan Miller
Writer

Donald Woods
Writer

Alex Langford
Original Music Composer
Media.



Details.
This Movie Is About.
lgbt
black lgbt
african american man
Wiki.
Tongues Untied is a 1989 American video essay experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman. and more. The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference."
In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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