Tongues Untied by Marlon T. Riggs
Film Screening
Photo courtesy of Signifyin' Works and Frameline Distribution
Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 6:00 pm (Doors at 5:30 p.m.)
SFAC Main Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
Free and open to the public
Tongues Untied
Directed by Marlon T. Riggs 1989 USA 55 mins
The seminal documentary on Black gay life, Tongues Untied (1989) uses poetry, personal testimony, rap, and performance (featuring poet Essex Hemphill and others) to describe the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men. Directed by Marlon T. Riggs’ to “shatter the nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference.”
This program is planned alongside the exhibition Ceremonies: Ritual to Self on view in the SFAC Main Gallery through May 3, 2025.
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