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Looking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film, directed by Isaac Julien and produced by Sankofa Film & Video Productions. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic storyline celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and ...
Dec 18, 2017 · Looking for Langston is a peculiar, yet beautiful film. It highlights the secret life of Langston Hughes: a prolific writer and poet burdened with the task of hiding his queerness. The film explores this hidden side to Hughes through a blend of fiction and nonfiction.
Oct 1, 1989 · Looking for Langston: Directed by Isaac Julien. With Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji, John Wilson. A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story.
Jun 15, 2022 · Willing into existence a history that had not been articulated or available to Julien, Looking for Langston conjures the ghost of Langston Hughes, who joins a chorus of Black queer ancestors—from James Baldwin to Richard Bruce Nugent—in the filmmaker’s lush black-and-white phantasmagoria.
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May 18, 2017 · Shot in sumptuous monochrome Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration – and recreation – of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes (1902–1967) and his fellow black artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s.
