简介： 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. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
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. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
德蒙特·莫罗尼,杰奎琳·比塞特,多米尼克·莫纳汉,克里斯·马尔基,麦克·马科夫,罗尼·吉恩·贝尔维斯,安东尼·斯科迪,葛人杰·海恩斯,加文·沃伦,德文·米歇尔斯,吉尔伯特·格伦·布朗,大卫·圣路易斯,Nancy La Scala,Jonathan Peacy,Sarah Cortez,Cosima Cabrera,Edgar de Santiago,普雷斯利·库克,Brick Patrick,布莱