Film
Tongues Untied
- 4:15PM
Made to “shatter this nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference,” Marlon Riggs’ bold and beautiful essay film combines poetry, performance, music, and montage to personify the singularity of the Black gay male experience in the early years of the AIDS pandemic. Partially funded via a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the film was met with a firestorm of controversy on its completion, but was recently selected for preservation in the United States Film Registry by the Library of Congress and remains a radical act of representation.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
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