Tongues Untied Friday April 18th in Atlanta

From: Salon Cuir (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2008 - 20:11:44 PDT


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Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs
Twentieth Anniversary screening next Friday, April 18th at Eyedrum
Gallery in Atlanta

“A black male warrior fighting for the right to love other black men,
Marlon Riggs affirms what was nearly lost, newly found: the certainty
that black male lives are utterly precious.”
-Alice Walker, Author, The Color Purple

Now more than ever – as Marlon Riggs' film Tongues Untied tells us –
“black men loving black men is the revolutionary act.” Come see one of
the only public Atlanta screenings of Riggs' powerful film since its
release 20 years ago.

WHEN: Friday April 18th, 8pm
WHERE: Eyedrum Gallery, 290 MLK Jr. Drive, near Memorial Drive & Hill
St.
COST: $7 sliding scale (pay what you can, no one turned away)
WHAT: Nikolai Ursin's Behind Every Good Man (1965, 12 minutes,
16mm)
Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied (1989, 55 minutes, video)
A panel discussion including Reginald Jackson, one of the original
cast-members of Tongues Untied, plus members of In The Life Atlanta,
the Deeper Love program of AID Atlanta, and Men of Onyx

Broadcast on PBS in July 1991, at the height of the nation’s fractious
“culture wars,” Tongues Untied was greeted with a firestorm of
grandstanding by conservative anti-NEA politicians. Addressing the
black gay male experience in America with a mixture of humor, poetry,
frankness, and unapologetically homoerotic imagery, Marlon Riggs’s
video polarized viewers and critics.

But Tongues Untied is far more than the sum of its controversy.
Filmmaker Marlon Riggs brilliantly juggles elements of documentary,
anthropology, essay, and autobiography, and creates a cumulative
emotional effect through his extraordinary sound and image editing.
Today Tongues Untied is recognized as a landmark of documentary and
personal cinema.

Tongues Untied is preceded by a screening of the extremely rare film
Behind Every Good Man by Nikolai Ursin. This remarkable 1965 student
film from Los Angeles is very possibly the first ever made with an
openly gay black man as the subject. The screening is introduced by
Andy Ditzler and followed by a panel discussion, including Reginald
Jackson (who appears in Tongues Untied), and other Atlantans who knew
and worked with Marlon Riggs.

Tongues Untied 20th Anniversary is a Film Love event. The Film Love
series provides access to rare but important films, and seeks to
increase awareness of the rich history of experimental and avant-garde
film. The series is curated and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent
Small Meals. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta by the
critics of Creative Loafing in 2006.

Film Love, curated by Andy Ditzler, is proud to screen these landmark
works in collaboration with the Pink Eye queer film series, curated by
Kiki Carr. The screening is co-presented by In The Life Atlanta, the
Deeper Love program of AID Atlanta, Men of Onyx and MondoHomo Dirty
South.

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Want an alternative to the Gay Mainstream? Join us for
MondoHomo Dirty South 2008
an alternaqueer culturefest taking place in Atlanta on
Memorial Day weekend, May 23-28, 2008:
http://www.mondohomo.com/index.php

Are you a Queer/LGBTQ+ Organizer or Activist in Atlanta?
Join the virtual Atlanta LGBTQ+ Community Center:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AtlantaQueerOrgs/

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Wanna know what's fun, radical, or subversive in Atlanta?
Stay in the loop with Radlanta! radical Atlanta fun blog
http://radlanta.blogspot.com/

Want an alternative to the Gay Mainstream? Join us for
MondoHomo Dirty South 2008
an alternaqueer culturefest taking place in Atlanta on
Memorial Day weekend, May 23-28, 2008:
http://www.mondohomo.com/index.php

Are you a Queer/LGBTQ+ Organizer or Activist in Atlanta?
Join the virtual Atlanta LGBTQ+ Community Center:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AtlantaQueerOrgs/

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