The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs

“Yes Marlon Riggs could get emotional thinking about it Tongues Untied that film changed me it changed me because his approach their approach to the filmmaking the film it's theatrical it's visceral it's evocative there's like this snap section that's super important but a film that challenges expression freedom of expression this film is important to me because I got to watch multifaceted black men express the nuance of being a black queer man and for it to be expressed in movement and dance.”

“Last year we did a retrospect, a full retrospective of Marlon Riggs at The Institute Moreira Salles in Brazil where I am a programmer, and it was kind of sad when we sent back the files and I'm happy that I now can invite some friends over and showed them some of his films and videos.”

“I was fortunate enough to meet and speak with and be encouraged by Marlon Riggs and they have the Marlon Riggs collection here. When he passed, he left a lot behind and he left most importantly,, his work behind for us and this is a collection of his work and it's always so hard to find. It really is always so hard to find streaming or anywhere and it's here in the collection so, I'm going to take that and I would say you should take that and find it here and add it to your coll...”

“Let's see here, The Signifying Works of Marlon Riggs. There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs, unapologetic gay black man who defied a culture of silence and Shame to speak his truth. I'll absolutely be checking that out, that sounds great.”

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