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Thursday, Nov 16, 2017
7 PM (114 mins)
BAMPFA
SUBJECTS
Tongues Untied
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Introduction by
Damon Young is an assistant professor of French and film & media at UC Berkeley.
Essex Hemphill, Blackberri, Brian Freeman, Alan Miller,
This exhilarating work breaks free of the homophobia and racism that mute the possibilities for human fulfillment. Marlon Riggs creates a poetic pastiche that has the emotional uplift of gospel music and the sobering impact of reportage. The words of gay poets, personal testimony, rap tableaux, dramatic sequences, and archival footage are woven together with a seductive palette of video effects. Riggs dared to speak the words that would conjure a life into being: “Black men loving black men is the revolutionary act.”
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Marlon Riggs
Cinematographer
- Marlon Riggs
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 55 mins
Source
- Frameline Distribution
CINEFILES
CineFiles is an online database of BAMPFA's extensive collection of documentation covering world cinema, past and present.
View Tongues untied documents
Tongues untied (program note), Harvard Film Archive, 2005
Marlon Riggs: 10 years after (program note), San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, 2004
Tongues untied: 10th anniversary screening and panel discussion (program note), San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Karl Bruce Knapper, 1999
Tongues untied (distributor materials), Frameline Distribution, 1996
Marlon Riggs: identity and ideology (article), Persistence of Vision, Janet K Cutler, 1995
Tongues untied (credits), Frameline Distribution, 1993
Interview with Marlon Riggs: listening to the heartbeat (interview), Jump Cut, Julia Lesage, 1991
Tongues untied wins L.A. critics' award (press release), Frameline Distribution, Mark Finch, 1991
Recollections of the human experience (review), Artweek, Valerie Soe, 1990
Tongues untied (program note), London Film Festival, Vito Russo, 1990
Displaying 10 of 13 publicly available documents.
Followed By
Take This Hammer
Richard O. Moore, United States, 1963
Richard O. Moore and the KQED mobile film unit documented James Baldwin’s visit to San Francisco in 1963. Accompanied by Youth for Service Executive Director Orville Luster, Baldwin meets with community leaders as he seeks to discern “the real situation of Negroes in the city as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present.” His conversations with the black youths he encounters provide just that, as they describe their frustrations with structural racism manifest in substandard housing, segregation, and lack of opportunity. Baldwin concludes, “There is no moral distance . . . between the facts of life in San Francisco and the facts of life in Birmingham. Someone’s got to tell it like it is. And that’s where it’s at.”
Kate MacKay
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Irving Saraf
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 59 mins
source
- San Francisco Bay Area Film and Television Archive
permission
- WNET