Riggs, whose experimental film about Black sexuality became a talking point in the presidential race, produced a body of work ripe for rediscovery. When Marlon Riggs’ best-known work, “Tongues ...

Watch our latest installment about Tongues Untied, a groundbreaking film about gay Black life that made public TV the center of controversy when it aired in 1991.

We have to fix that." Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill in 'Tongues Untied' Becker is creating a "curatorial advisory group" to help identify new acquisitions and "senior leadership coaching for all our ...

When the name Marlon Riggs was suggested ... secured his reputation as a new voice in documentary film. Riggs' 1990 film "Tongues Untied" is perhaps his best known, and it was controversial ...

With its unique blend of poetry, music and personal testimonials of black gay men living their authentic truths in 1980s America, Marlon Riggs' "Tongues Untied" stood out among documentaries of the ...

black gay men with AIDS (Riggs died in 1994, at 37) — embodied this disjunction of the era’s taboos. The Marlon Riggses of the world were invisible. But not to me. I saw “Tongues Untied ...

Not rated. 3 Stars MARLON RIGGS SUCCUMBED to AIDS in 1994, two years after he entered the national consciousness as the maker of “Tongues Untied,” a documentary on the joys and sorrows of ...

“Tongues Untied” is a doubly daring celebration ... daring things about the show — the enormous risks filmmaker Marlon Riggs took stylistically. The work looks more like a music video ...

Marlon Troy Riggs was a Black gay filmmaker from Fort Worth, TX who produced, wrote, and directed several documentary films, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is ...

Shikeith: I pitched this idea in May 2021, [after] the 30th anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s “Tongues Untied.” I wanted to bring in this specific community of people that I felt were ...

Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3 ... including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films ...