Tongues Untied + Vintage: Families of Value

This event has been rescheduled from September 22.

Tongues Untied 
Dir. Marlon Riggs. 1989, 55 mins. U.S. DCP.  

Vintage: Families of Value 
Dir. Thomas Allen Harris. 1995, 72 mins. U.S. 16mm. 

Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied is an unclassifiable masterpiece that breaks formal boundaries in an attempt to express an exuberant, joyous, angry, irreducibly complex Black gay identity. Riggs was diagnosed with HIV during filming, and his essay legendarily sparked a national blowback from the conservative Right before its airing on POV. It’s now correctly viewed as one of the essential films of the era. Thomas Allen Harris’s similarly formally adventurous Vintage: Families of Value uses video and film to depict three sets of Black queer siblings (including himself and his brother), resulting in a raucous collection of portraits that expand the meaning of American family.  

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.