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Black Ain't is a 1995 award-winning feature-length documentary by Marlon Riggs. It explores the multiplicity of expressions of African American identity. [1] Overview. Black Is...Black Ain't is an exploration and comprehensive commentary of the Black experience in America.
Told from Riggs’ hospital bed as he dies to AIDS, the film acts as a eulogy for an artist who believes in Black futures enough to believe we can move beyond the narrow definitons that patriarchy, sexism, and homophobia offer our culture. Director: Marlon Riggs Year: 1994 Genre: Documentary Type: Feature
Black Ain’t. Made with an urgency imparted by the knowledge that he was nearing the end of his life, Marlon Riggs’s final film—completed by a group of his devoted collaborators after his death of AIDS-related illnesses—is a wide-ranging consideration of a question that had long been central to his work: What does it mean to be Black?
A glimpse into the paradoxical definitions of blackness to be found within the black community, Riggs begins by showing his own mother making her famous gumbo, and keeps returning periodically...
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Synopsis. The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, Black Is...Black Ain't, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. Black Is...Black Ain't is a film every African American should see, ponder and discuss. White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans.
1 de jun. de 1994 · Overview. African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay ...
Black Ain't: Directed by Marlon Riggs. With Angela Davis, Essex Hemphill, bell hooks, Bill T. Jones. A film about black experiences with a "backdrop of Creole cooking."
