---
title: 'Tongues Untied (1989)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Marlon Riggs'
released: '1989-01-01'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tongues-untied-1989'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103099/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tongues Untied (1989)

1989 · United States


## Synopsis

Tongues Untied is a 1989 American video essay experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman, and more. The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference."

## Credits

- **Director:** [Marlon Riggs](https://cinepixo.com/people/marlon-riggs)
- **Producer:** [Marlon Riggs](https://cinepixo.com/people/marlon-riggs)

## Cast

- [Essex Hemphill](https://cinepixo.com/people/essex-hemphill)

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