Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1992 • United States
Following his groundbreaking study of anti-Black stereotypes ETHNIC NOTIONS, Marlon Riggs turned his attention to the racial implications of America’s favorite addiction: television watching. COLOR ADJUSTMENT traces forty years of race relations through the lens of prime-time entertainment, scrutinizing television’s racial myths and stereotypes. Narrated by Ruby Dee, this at once engaging and perceptive documentary allows viewers to revisit some of television’s most popular stars and shows—from “Amos ’n’ Andy” to “The Cosby Show”—and their complex, sometimes insidious roles in shaping America’s racial narrative.
Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1993 • United States
Through music, poetry and quiet, at times chilling, self-disclosure, five HIV-positive Black gay men speak of their individual confrontation with AIDS, illuminating the difficult journey Black men throughout America have made in coping with the per...
Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1994 • United States
The final film by Marlon Riggs jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of “Blackness” that African Americans impose on each other, Riggs as...
Directed by Karen Everett • 1996 • United States
Starring Marlon Riggs
This loving film biography provides a fitting memorial to Marlon Riggs, the gifted, gay, Black filmmaker who died from AIDS in 1994. It traces his development from a precocious childhood in the close-knit African American com...
