Essential Black Filmmaker Marlon Riggs: Triple Feature
Come to one or all three films--they're hard to find elsewhere, but all available on the library's streaming film service, Kanopy!
Ethnic Notions (1987)
1:00—2:00 PM
A deep dive into the media’s reinforcement of anti-black prejudice, this Emmy-winning documentary pulls no punches in its analysis of black representation in a white-dominated society.
Tongues Untied (1989)
2:15—3:15 PM
Winner of Best Documentary Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, this documentary provides much-needed insight into the lives of black gay men and their struggles against racism, homophobia, and marginalization.
Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)
3:30—5:00 PM
Winner of the 1995 Sundance Filmmakers Trophy, this film addresses the concept of “blackness” within the black community. A celebration of black diversity, filmmaker Marlon Riggs asks all the toughest questions.
- Date:
- Saturday, February 16, 2019
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Books & Reading