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.
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Cast & Crew.
Marlon Riggs
Self / Director / Original Music Composer / Director of Photography / 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)
Alex Langford
Original Music Composer
Steve Langley
Original Music Composer / Writer
Vivian Kleiman
Director of Photography
Joseph Beam
Writer
Chris Harris
Writer
Reginald Jackson
Writer
Alan Miller
Writer
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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