A five-year-old boy tragically lost his life after falling off a harbour wall. Benjamin Cullis had been out fishing and crabbing with his dad and younger brother when he tripped and fell in Padstow harbour, Cornwall.
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Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act. – Marlon Riggs
Over a quarter of a century ago, we lost one of the most visionary and radical Black queer filmmakers. One of the many men felled in the second wave of AIDS, he left an incomplete legacy. But he managed to provide us with informative, provocative, radical, beautiful works. He said, “I make films to be used, I don’t make them to be seen once on television or seen once in a theater and then that’s it…. I make them to provoke people in some way.” And he succeeded.
Riggs’ film “Ethnic Notions” (1987) documents the fact that long before the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation,” white people eagerly received a piling on of horrid caricatures of Black people. These appeared everywhere: popular sheet music, Black face for musicals and staged skits, posted caricatures, jars, clay containers, cartoon series, etc. spread across the land, positing Black people as objects of ridicule – amusing but sometimes dangerous creatures who inspired classical Aristotelian Pity and Fear, who white people could still scorn and laugh at.
Then Riggs made “Tongues Untied” (1989), a loving and admonishing exploration of Black queer male sexuality. The message is repeated: “Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act.” We see performing artists reinforce this, the message adorning a large banner in a Pride march, held by Black men with Black men following it with joyous footwork. It’s also held in a Black Pride march, and a man on the sidewalk stentoriously tells the queers that they are wrong and a discredit to the race. They don’t let this pass.
The critic Rhea Combs said “Tongues Untied” was “emblematic of [Riggs’] unique filmmaking style because of its daring bravado and
A five-year-old boy tragically lost his life after falling off a harbour wall. Benjamin Cullis had been out fishing and crabbing with his dad and younger brother when he tripped and fell in Padstow harbour, Cornwall.
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