テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「🔎 Spotlight on… ‘Looking for Langston’ by Isaac Julien. ⁣ ⁣ This film, made at the height of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, explores Black, queer desire in a setting which has no clear time and place. ⁣ ⁣ The film breaks down traditional divisions between different art forms, bringing together poetry and image to look at the private world of the Black artists and writers who were part of the Harlem Renaissance. This was an intellectual, social and artistic explosion in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s - considered a golden age in African-American literature, music and arts. Langston Hughes was a poet and social activist at the time. The film incorporates archive footage and recordings of him, alongside imagined scenes and dream sequences. ⁣ ⁣ This still is from a bar scene, set somewhere between a 1920s speakeasy and a 1980s nightclub, where men in black gather and tenderly partner up to dance, or sit with a drink or cigarette. The film ends with a raid on the bar by a mob of police and thugs with shaven heads, leather jackets and heavy boots, addressing the daily dangers faced by LGBTQ+ people of colour. Today, it retains its urgency and relevance. ⁣ ⁣ 📽️ Isaac Julien, Looking for Langston, 1989.⁣ Click the link in our bio to learn more about Julien's filmmaking career.」7月12日 19時33分