Film
Moonlight + Affirmations
- 7PM
Dir. Barry Jenkins
With Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes.
2016, 111min, DCP
The spirit of Riggs courses through Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning instant classic, which beautifully carries on the late artist’s mission: to bring the images and stories of queer black men to the screen. In three heartrending chapters, Moonlight charts the journey of a gay African-American man as he comes of age in Miami, navigating the questions of identity, sexuality, and black masculinity that Riggs so eloquently explored.
Dir. Marlon Riggs
1990, 10min, DCP
A stirringly poetic portrait of black gay men fighting for visibility and liberation.
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
“Black men loving black men is the revolutionary act.”
A provocative deconstruction of black representation in the age of primetime television.
Riggs’ final film is a moving call for communion among black Americans.