Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act. – Marlon Riggs Over a quarter of a century ago, we lost one of the most visionary and radical Black queer filmmakers.
One of the many men felled in the second wave of AIDS, he left an incomplete legacy. But he managed to provide us with informative, provocative, radical, beautiful works.
He said, “I make films to be used, I don’t make them to be seen once on television or seen once in a theater and then that’s it….
I make them to provoke people in some way.” And he succeeded. Riggs’ film “Ethnic Notions” (1987) documents the fact that long before the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation,” white people eagerly received a piling on of horrid caricatures of Black people.
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