Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre
Plot: Between 2014 and 2017, McClodden revived the work of deceased Black queer artists who were active during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, including the poet and activist Essex Hemphill. Here, McClodden remakes a scene from Marlon Riggs’s essay-film Tongues Untied (1989), in which Hemphill recites a passage from writer Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Release Date:
Tuesday, December 1 2015
8 years ago
8 years ago