Looking for Langston (1989)
45m
Running Time
October 31, 1989Release Date
Looking for Langston (1989)
45m
Running Time
October 31, 1989Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
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Cast & Crew.

Ben Ellison
Alex

Matthew Baidoo
Beauty

Akim Mogaji
James

John Wilson
Karl

Dencil Williams
Marcus

John Wilson
Karl

Guy Burgess
Dean

Dublin James Wahlberg
Carlos

Harry Donaldson
Leatherboy

Jimmy Somerville
Angel

Langston Hughes
Himself (archive footage)

Stuart Hall
British voice (voice)

Isaac Julien
Director / Screenplay

Nina Kellgren
Director of Photography

Ronald Bailey
Sound mixer

Nadine Marsh-Edwards
Producer

Peter Spencer
Original Music Composer

Derek Brown
Art Direction

Robert Hargreaves
Editor

Wayson Jones
Original Music Composer

Trevor Mathison
Original Music Composer
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
lgbt
harlem renaissance
gay theme
Wiki.
Looking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film, directed by Isaac Julien and produced by Sankofa Film & Video Productions. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic storyline celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and cultural period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York. The film has a runtime of about 42 minutes.
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