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Discover Marlon Riggs, a signifying American filmmaker
by Michael J. Casey
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all Marlon Riggs whatever you want. He describes himself as an “independent
Those quotes come courtesy of an interview conducted with Riggs in 1992, gathered in a new set from The Criterion Collection: The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs
pop culture produces mass assumptions make him an ideal candidate for reappraisal. Ethnic Notions from 1986: Riggs traces racially charged images from STILL FROM ‘SUMMERTIME’
stereotypes continually manifested throughout the
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set, says Riggs “had a way of seeing everything at once.” You feel that in both Ethnic Notions and Tongues Untied, an audiovisual poem incorporating documentary, performance, mantra and
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community and racism in white gay culture. To be Black or gay is to belong to a community. To be both is to live as an outsider, and Riggs did everything he Both Ethnic Notions and Tongues Untied have ON THE BILL: The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs is available now on from The Criterion Collection.
how most saw them. Credit goes to the National Endowment were programmed in the dead of night, as one station managa line in Ethnic Notions inconvenient.”
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Black Is... Black Ain’t with a shot of Riggs dancing. Riggs loved dancing and incorporated it into his work.
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