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Anthem (Marlon Riggs)

Black Lives • 8m 18s

Directed by Marlon Riggs • Documentary • 1991 • 8 minutes

Marlon Riggs' experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African-American men. With images—sensual, sexual, and defiant—and words intended to provoke, Anthem reasserts the self-evident right to life and liberty in an era of pervasive anti-gay, anti-Black backlash and hysterical cultural repression.

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african-american, anthem, black, documentary, expository, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, ovid, race, signifyin' works, social issues, title_a

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