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Cinéma/TV Histoire/société
LONG Métrage | 1995
Black is…black ain’t
Titre original : Personal journey through black identity
Pays concerné : États-Unis
Durée : 87 minutes
Genre : société
Type : documentaire

Français

Le dernier projet du cinéaste Américain Marlon Riggs, achevé sept mois après sa mort. A la fois une exploration de l’identité noire aux Etats-Unis et l’histoire de la lutte de Riggs contre le SIDA


– une co-production ITVS


DVD disponible
California Newsreel (USA)




– 1995 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmakers’ Trophy

– 1995 Berlin Film Festival

– 1995 San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Award

– 1995 Black Filmmakers’ Hall of Fame, Best of Festival
– 1995 sortie en salle

English

Black is…black ain’t
American culture has stereotyped black Americans for centuries. Equally devastating, the late Marlon Riggs argued, have been the definitions of « blackness » African Americans impose upon one another which contain and reduce the black experience. In this film, Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blackness.

Last project of American filmmaker Marlon Riggs, completed posthumously. At once an exploration of Black identity and the story of Riggs’ struggle with AIDS.


Riggs, Marlon T, Producer. Director.
Atkinson, Nicole, Producer.
Badgley, Christiane, Director. Editor.
Co-editor, Bob Paris;
Director of photography, Robert Shepard;
Original music, Mary Watkins.

Performers:
Essex Hemphill, Larry Duckette, Wayson R. Jones, Linda Tillery, Wayne T. Corbitt, Djola Bernard Branner, Eric Gupton, Angela Davis, Yvette Flunder, Marlon T. Riggs.

sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Production
Independent Television Service.
California Newsreel (Firm)
Signifyin’ Works (Firm)




DVD available
California Newsreel (USA)
Note : Adult.


Subject
Riggs, Marlon T.
African Americans – Race identity.
African Americans – Attitudes.
African Americans – Color – Social aspects.
African American gays.
Documentary films.


o 1995 theatrical release
– An ITVS co-production.




– 1995 Sundance Film Festival, Filmmakers’ Trophy o 1995 Berlin Film Festival
– 1995 San Francisco Int’l. Film Festival, Golden Gate Award
– 1995 Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Best of Festival
– 1995 Festival dei Popoli
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