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Loan Terms:

Circulating

Status:

In

V1195

Tongues Untied

Riggs, Marlon

Description:

1/2 in., VHS, NTSC.   viewing copy.   1 videocassette of 1.
color.   fullscreen.   sound.  

Notes:

Sound. Transferred from UC Archive 16mm film print. Also on tape: KHUSH (Prattibha Parmar, Great Britain, 1991, 24 min.).

Titles

+ Tongues Untied

Director:

Riggs, Marlon

Running Time:

Short.   55 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

USA

Year:

1989

Language:

English

Genre:

Documentary, African - American Interest, Lgbt Interest

Notes:

Sound. Transferred from UC Archive 16mm film print. Also on tape: KHUSH (Prattibha Parmar, Great Britain, 1991, 24 min.).

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Khush

Director:

Parmar, Pratibha

Running Time:

Short.   24 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

United Kingdom

Year:

1991

Language:

English

Genre:

Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Female Directors

Notes:

Sound. On tape after TONGUES UNTIED. Archive also has 3/4" video exhibition copy. “Khush” means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India (where homosexuality is still illegal) the term captures the blissful intricacies of being queer and of color. Inspiring testimonies bridge geographical differences to locate shared experiences of isolation and exoticization but also the unremitting joys and solidarity of being “khush”. Accentuated by beautifully lit dream sequences, dance segments and a dazzlingly sensuous soundtrack, this uplifting documentary conveys the exhilaration of a culturally rooted experience of sexuality. [WMM website]