Tongues Untied

This cinematic poem and voiceband in one is an audiovisual expression of the eponymous “tongues untied,” serving as a symbolic break of the silence that has plagued the Black American homosexual community for a long time. It becomes solely a manifesto for identifying a difference that has been consciously enforced between the predominantly black heterosexual majority and the alienated white gay minority. The question of race divides not only society as a whole, but also the minorities themselves all across the board. The heavily poeticised text of the film presented in an occasional rap rhythm of mixed voices is largely a self-confident commitment to an experience that is exceptional against its own will.