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Looking for Langston / Sankofa Film & Video presents ; poetry and texts [by] James Baldwin, Essex Hemphill, Bruce Nugent, Hilton Als ; producer, Nadine Marsh-Edwards ; written and directed by Isaac Julien.
LIBRA DVD PS3515.U274 Z676 2007
Available from offsite location
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 188
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Drama.
- Hughes, Langston.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Closeted gay people.
- African Americans--Attitudes.
- Gay men--Drama.
- Gay men.
- African American authors.
- African American gay men.
- African American poets.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Closeted gay people--Drama.
- Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- African American poets--20th century--Drama.
- African American gay men--20th century--Drama.
- African American authors--Sexual behavior--Drama.
- Harlem Renaissance--Drama.
- African Americans--Attitudes--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films -- Great Britain.
- Fiction films.
- Experimental films.
- Historical films.
- Biographical films.
- Erotic films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- Other Title:
- At head of title: Meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and the Harlem Renaissance with the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) in memory of James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Place of Publication:
- [Culver City, Calif.] : Distributed by Strand Releasing, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Optional subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- full screen (1.33:1)
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- This self-described meditation on the life of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes addresses the possible, possibly imagined, life of the author as a gay man. Both documentary and fantasy, it blends archival footage with black and white paeans to a life that might have been--a Harlem nightclub from the 1920s, a London nightspot from the late eighties, various dream sequences--foregrounding gay sexual desire, constructed of a mélange of materials. Looking for Langston is not a mainstream film, but a short film, an avant-garde film, a gay film, and a black British film. Indeed, the prospect of viewing the film can be an off-putting one, considering its competing narrative lines as documentary, reclamation of an aspect of black history, rumination on the AIDS crisis, or pure fantasy.
- Contents:
- Opening
- Langston
- Shared secret
- Beauty
- Waking
- What happened?
- Hunger
- In vogue
- Wall of memory
- Fallen angels
- Collision
- Credits.
- Participant:
- Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji, John Wilson, Dencil Williams, Guy Burgess, James Dublin, Harry Donaldson, Erick Ray Evans, Essex Hemphill, Wayson Jones, Toni Morrison, Stuart Hall.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Nina Kellgren; editor: Robert Hargreaves; costume designer, Robert Worley; research, Mark Nash.
- Notes:
- Special features: commentary track with Isaac Julien & Nina Kellgren; stills gallery (7 min.); The attendant / directed by Isaac Julien (8 min.).
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1989.
- Winner, Gay and Lesbian Award of the Berlin International Film Festival "Teddy," Best Short Film, 1989 Berlin International Film Festival.
- Contains:
- Attendant.
- OCLC:
- 159935438
- Publisher Number:
- 712267271627
- 2716-2 Strand Releasing
- Online:
- View cover art
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