(Black Is… Black Ain’t)

Content: 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 slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

87 minutes

Year:

1995

Directors:

Marlon Riggs

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Production companies:

Signifyin' Works

Actors:

Self

Self

Self

Self

Self

Crews:

Director

Editor

Director of Photography

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor