Tongues Untied (1989)

Directed by

Marlon Riggs

Genre

essay film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

55 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Black gay men speak about their experiences with identity, homophobia, and racism through poetry, performance, and personal testimony. The film mixes documentary and artistic styles to break the silence around their lives.

poeticangryintimateunflinchingexperimentalrawconfrontational

What happens

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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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