Essex Hemphill Movies
- 1990
Tongues Untied
Tongues Untied6.71990HD
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act....
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- 1993
Anthem
Anthem4.41993HD
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
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- 1994
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Black Is… Black Ain’t6.11994HD
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...
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- 1990
Affirmations
Affirmations5.61990HD
A look at what it's like to be gay and black in America.
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- 2015
Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre
Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre02015HD
Between 2014 and 2017, McClodden revived the work of deceased Black queer artists who were active during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, including the poet...
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- 1970
Essex Hemphill: From The Anacostia to the Potomac
Essex Hemphill: From The Anacostia to the Potomac01970HD
Video performance of poetry by Essex Hemphill in performance with Larry Duckette, Brenda Files & Cordell Credle
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