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Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre

Plot: Between 2014 and 2017, McClodden revived the work of deceased Black queer artists who were active during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, including the poet and activist Essex Hemphill. Here, McClodden remakes a scene from Marlon Riggs’s essay-film Tongues Untied (1989), in which Hemphill recites a passage from writer Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Release Date: Tuesday, December 1 2015
9 years ago
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Portrait of Essex HemphillEssex HemphillEssex Hemphill would have been no older than 28 in Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre as 'Self'.
Birthday: Sun, Apr 16 1967 –
Thu, Nov 09 1995

Crew

Portrait of Tiona Nekkia McCloddenTiona Nekkia McCloddenTiona Nekkia McClodden was 34 in Af-Fixing Ceremony: Four Movements for Essex, Movement I: Essex + Audre as 'Director'
Birthday: Thu, Jan 01 1981