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I SHALL NOT BE REMOVED: THE LIFE OF MARLON RIGGS
"A Loving and brilliant documentary biography...It
sings in the face of rejection, loss, racism, homophobia, and AIDS"
— San Francisco Examiner
This loving film biography
provides a fitting memorial to Marlon Riggs, the gifted, gay, black
filmmaker who died from AIDS in 1994. It traces his development
from a precocious childhood in the close-knit African American community
of Fort Worth, Texas, through his political awakening at Harvard,
to his final years as a courageous advocate for stigmatized people
everywhere. Clips from all eight of Marlon's films show how he evolved
a unique experimental documentary style, mixing poetry and criticism,
the personal and the political.
It recounts the 'Culture War' which erupted around
his autobiographical Tongues Untied and reached the
Senate floor and nightly news, turning Marlon into an articulate
and courageous spokesman for free expression. It also documents
his long, harrowing battle against AIDS, sustained by his desire
to complete his legacy to the African American community, Black
Is...Black Ain't. Family, friends, students and co-workers
discuss Marlon's profound impact on their lives and work. As his
UC Berkeley colleague, Dr. Barbara Christian, observes: "Marlon
opened a space in which black people in America can be represented."
58 Minutes, 1996, USA
Director/Producer Karen Everett Awards Silver Apple Award — National Educational Media; Best Documentary Nomination -- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Distributed by California Newsreel To order a copy contact Karen Everett ABOUT KAREN
Karen Everett is an independent filmmaker living
in San Francisco. Her works include Sweet Boy (2001);
My Femme Divine (1999), which won Best Director's Award
at the San Diego LGBT film Festival; the award-winning Biography
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996),
which aired on PBS and Framing Lesbian Fashion (1992),
named a Best Documentary by the American Film Institute. Everett
currently teaches in the documentary film program at UC Berkeley's
Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her Masters degree.
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