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 personal and social devastation of the epidemic. From panic, resignation, and silence to the discovery of the redemptive, healing power in being vocal and visible, each tells a singular and at the same time familiar story of self-transformation—a story in which a once-shameful, unmentionable “affliction” is forged into a tool of personal and communal empowerment.
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...
