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Title:

Looking for Langston [videorecording] : a meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and the Harlem Renaissance with the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) in memory of James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Sankofa Film and Video presents ; poetry and texts [by] James Baldwin, Essex Hemphill, Bruce Nugent, Hilton Als ; producer, Nadine Marsh-Edwards ; written and directed by Isaac Julien.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Sankofa Film and Video ;

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min. [i.e. 45 min.]) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967.
Gay men--Drama.
Closeted gays--Drama.
Gay men--New York--New York--Drama.
African American poets--20th century--Drama.
African American gay men--20th century--Drama.
African American authors--Sexual behavior--Drama.
Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
Foreign films.
Erotic films.
Short films.
Historical films.
Biographical films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Julien, Isaac.
Marsh-Edwards, Nadine.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Hemphill, Essex.
Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987.
Als, Hilton.
Ellison, Ben. act
Baidoo, Matthew. act
Sankofa Film & Video.
British Film Institute.
Strand Releasing (Firm)

Notes:

Ben Ellison (Alex), Matthew Baidoo (Beauty), Akim Mogaji (James), John Wilson (Karl), Dencil Williams (Marcus), Guy Burgess (Dean), James Dublin (Carlos), Harry Donaldson (Leatherboy); American voices, Erick Ray Evans, Essex Hemphill, Wayson Jones, Toni Morrison; British voice, Stuart Hall. Produced as a British motion picture in 1989. Special features: Commentary track with Isaac Julien & Nina Kellgren [optional audio feature]; Photo gallery [slide show] (7 min.); "The attendant" [featurette] (8 min.); Other Strand titles [previews] (9 min.).

Contents:

Opening -- Langston -- Shared secret -- Beauty -- Waking -- What happened? -- Hunger -- In vogue -- Wall of memory -- Fallen angels -- Collision -- Credits.

Summary:

This self-described meditation on the life of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes addresses the possible, possibly imagined, life of the author as a gay man. Both documentary and fantasy, it blends archival footage with black and white paeans to a life that might have been--a Harlem nightclub from the 1920s, a London nightspot from the late eighties, various dream sequences--foregrounding gay sexual desire, constructed of a mélange of materials. Looking for Langston is not a mainstream film, but a short film, an avant-garde film, a gay film, and a black British film. Indeed, the prospect of viewing the film can be an off-putting one, considering its competing narrative lines as documentary, reclamation of an aspect of black history, rumination on the AIDS crisis, or pure fantasy.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)159935438

UPC:

712267271627

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)