Two Films by Marlon Riggs

Two films, Anthem & Tongues Untied by Fort Worth-born filmmaker Marlon Riggs.

Snapshots of the Black South, Homecoming & Drag of Genre

Marlon Riggs, USA, 68 mins (Total)

Anthem (1992)

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.

Tongues Untied (1988)

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act.