Anthem

Name: Anthem
Genre: Short
Duration: 9 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Djola Bernard Branner, Jesse Harris, Willi Ninja

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

247

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Short

Dance, music, words and poetry in defiant celebration of the sensual and sexual pleasure of being black and queer.Dance, music, words and poetry in defiant celebration of the sensual and sexual pleasure of being black and queer.Dance, music, words and poetry in defiant celebration of the sensual and sexual pleasure of being black and queer.

Director
- Marlon Riggs
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

247

YOUR RATING

Director
- Marlon Riggs
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos

Trivia
This film is included in "The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs", released by Criterion, spine #1,082.

Connections
Edited into Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema (1993)

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Featured review

10/10

I too, sing America

I'm always worried when watching queer cinema of the 20th century that it will be a depressing reminder of the plague, but I should know that Marlon Riggs doesn't do depressing. He shows a realistic understanding of the world, but it is always uplifting. The fact that he is always intersectional in his work just makes it all the better.

This is an anthem to the United States that is, was, and could be. And equally and anthem to the gay, black citizens who are, were, and will continue to defy the America that attempts to erase them.