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Looking for Langston

+ discussion

A screening and discussion around a vanguard of the New Queer Cinema and Black Queer Cinema movement.

  • Director

    Isaac Julien

  • With

    Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji

  • UK 1989. 45min (total running time 105min)

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

The influence of Isaac Julien’s groundbreaking, lyrical and poetic meditation on the life of revered Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes still ripples throughout the representation of queerness on screen today. Following the film, host of the award-winning Busy Being Black podcast Josh Rivers will be joined by BFI Race Equality Lead Rico Johnson-Sinclair and Black Queer Media Writer Dr Rico Norwood to discuss the work (alongside Marlon T Riggs’ Tongues Untied) and explore the past, present, and future of queer cinema, reaffirming modern queer cinema’s afro-centric roots.

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