Marlon Riggs
Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films that examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
Tongues Untied
as SelfMarlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill,...
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Anthem
as uncreditedA collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates...
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Absolutely Positive
as SelfThe narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word is Out) and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has...
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Positive Men
as SelfPositive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men...
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Black Is… Black Ain’t
as SelfAfrican-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died...
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I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
as SelfIncorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a...
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