www.thewgbhlab.org Tongues UNITED (2011) is a war cry for the new digital age. This video essay, modeled in part after the choreopoem and mixtape forms of the 70s and 80s respectively, uses Marlon Riggs��� award-winning documentary ���Tongues Untied��� as a jumping off point to explore LGBT life, love, and character in the twenty-first century. Created twenty years after the Stonewall Uprising, Riggs��� experimental video has since inspired a new generation of black artists and activists to assert their beautiful, ���revolutionary��� selves. Tongues UNITED constructs a poetic opus out of seemingly disparate, crowd-sourced audio, video and photography (taken by LGBT folk and our straight allies). The multi-modal nature of Tongues UNITED speaks to the evolution and variegation of the LGBT community, while also exploring some of the expanding avenues new media technology and universal accessibility continue to take our society. This project is dedicated to the memory of Marlon Riggs who, on February 3, 2011, would have turned 54 years old.

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