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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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