#391 - The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We discuss the work of black gay filmmaker, educator, poet, and activist Marlon Riggs and his films with a focus on ETHNIC NOTIONS, TONGUES UNTIED and BLACK IS... BLACK AIN'T. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as well as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:10.3	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.
0:13.0	And today, we are discussing Marlon Riggs.
0:16.2	I don't know how to talk about this one.
0:17.9	Yeah, boy.
0:18.7	I'm just going to say that.
0:19.7	We are white.
0:20.7	Well, okay,
0:21.4	there's that. And we are also heterosexual. Okay, so there's that. There's, there's,
0:26.9	there is that. But also, this is work that I think speaks very clearly for itself. And so maybe we
0:33.9	don't you think we're going to find variations of it's very good. Don't, don't you think it's going to be kind of silly to be just stating the themes that are clearly
0:40.8	expressed in these films and then saying, I agree.
0:44.4	Yes.
0:44.9	But you could also talk about the way that it's constructed, why it is that emotionally, like,
0:49.7	resonant because these are not just like, well, not all of them straight ahead.
0:53.7	We're presenting you
0:54.3	with this information in a way that no one has done it before. And I think talking about his
0:58.7	story is also interesting of how he gets to these points. It will be interesting to talk
1:02.3	about the stylistic evolution of these films, which begin with, you know, a fairly
1:06.9	normal documentary style, if that makes sense. And then turns into something more
1:13.8	experimental. I think what you're thinking of is more of a public access style, if you will. Or public
1:18.2	television, like PBS style. But what I really want to do is get on my soapbox and say that the
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