Anthem

9 minutes, United States

Produced and Directed by Marlon Riggs

Anthem

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

This film is part of Anthem, Affirmations and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret), an anthology of works by pioneering filmmaker Marlon Riggs addressing issues of black gay male identity and confronting HIV/AIDS.

Anthem

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This film is part of Anthem, Affirmations and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret), an anthology of works by pioneering filmmaker Marlon Riggs addressing issues of black gay male identity and confronting HIV/AIDS.