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The signifyin' works of Marlon Riggs [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2021.

DVD 305.896073 R569s Doc

Riggs, Marlon T.

Gay men, Black -- United States -- Biography.

Gay men -- United States -- Biography.

AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Blacks -- United States -- Race identity.

Blacks -- Race identity.

Gay men, Black -- Identity.

Homosexuality -- United States.

Criterion collection ; 1082.

Alternate title:

I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

Three-DVD special ed.

3 videodiscs (339 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (43 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)

Originally released as documentary short films in 1986-1995.

Features: Newly restored digital video masters of all sevne films ; four new programs featuring editor Christiane Badgley; performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackon, and Bill T. Jones ; filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans; poet Jericho Brown; film and media scholar Racquel Gates; and sociologist Herman Gray ; excerpts from a 1992 interview with director Marlon Riggs ; brief introductions by Riggs to Tongues untied and Color adjustment ; "Long train running : the story of the Oakland blues", Riggs' University of California, Berkeley graduate thesis film ; "I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs", a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman ; filmmaker Isaac Julien ; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian ; several of Riggs's longtime friends and collaborators ; and members of his family ; PLUS: an essay by film critic K. Austin Collins.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Disc 1. Ethnic notions (1986) -- Tongues untied (1989) -- Affirmations (1990) -- Anthem (1991) -- Disc 2. Color adjustment (1992) -- Non, je ne regrette rien = No regret (1993) -- Black is... black ain't (1995) -- Disc 3. Supplements.

Written, directed, and produced by Marlon T. Riggs.

Essex Hemphill, Reginald T. Jackson, Blackberri, Angela Davis.

"There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs: an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction. An early adopter of video technology, Riggs employed a bold mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in order to confront the devastating legacy of racist stereotypes, the impact of AIDS on his community, and the very definition of what it means to be Black. Bringing together Riggs’s complete films -- including his controversy-inciting queer landmark Tongues Untied and Black Is...Black Ain’t, the deeply personal swan song that was completed after his death at the age of thirty-seven -- The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs traces the artistic and political evolution of a transformative filmmaker whose work is both an electrifying call for liberation and an invaluable historical document."--Container.

Documentary films.

Biographical documentary films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Riggs, Marlon T.

Hemphill, Essex.

Jackson, Reginald.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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