Poster of Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre

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
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Cast

Portrait of Essex HemphillEssex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill would have been no older than
28 in Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre
as 'Self'.
Sun, Apr 16 1967 –
Thu, Nov 09 1995

Crew

Portrait of Tiona Nekkia McCloddenTiona Nekkia McClodden
Tiona Nekkia McClodden was
34 in Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre
as 'Director'
Thu, Jan 01 1981