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In an experimental amalgam of rap music, street poetry, documentary film, and dance, a gay African-American man expresses what it is like to be gay and black in the United States.

Title: Tongues untied
[videorecording]

Publisher: Frameline , Distributed by Strand Releasing

Additional Contributors: Hemphill, Essex
Riggs, Marlon T.

Imprint: [San Francisco?] : [Culver City, Calif.?] : - Frameline , Distributed by Strand Releasing

Pages: 55

Language: English

Awards & Distinctions: Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Documentary, 1990 and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award, 1990

Credits: Photographer and editor, Marlon T. Riggs.

Performers: Poetry performance, Essex Hemphill.

Notes: Bonus features: deleted scenes and outtakes; 1991 interview with the director; interviews with filmmaker Isaac Julien, AIDS activist Phill Wilson, spoken word artist Juba Kalamka and cultural critic Herman Gray.
Full screen presentation.
Originally produced in 1989.
Closed-captioned.
Documentary.
DVD.

Statement of responsibility: producer, director, Marlon T. Riggs

Characteristics: 1 videodisc (55 min.) :,sd., col. with b&w sequences ;,4 3/4 in.

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