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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.
October 31, 1989
BFI, Sankofa Film & Video
11 people
Ben Ellison
Alex
Acting
Matthew Baidoo
Beauty
Acting
Akim Mogaji
James
Acting
John Wilson
Karl
Acting
Dencil Williams
Marcus
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Guy Burgess
Dean
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Dublin James Wahlberg
Carlos
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Harry Donaldson
Leatherboy
Acting
Jimmy Somerville
Angel
Acting
Langston Hughes
Self (archive footage)
Writing
Stuart Hall
British (voice)
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