Director
Marlon Riggs
Year
1994
Run Time
87
min
Country
United States
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
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