Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | At head of title: Meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1907) and the Harlem Renaissance with the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) in memory of James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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| Other title: | Attendant.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Julien, Isaac.
Marsh-Edwards, Nadine.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Hemphill, Essex.
Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987.
Als, Hilton.
Ellison, Ben
Baidoo, Matthew.
Mogaji, Akim.
Wilson, John.
Williams, Dencil.
Burgess, Guy
Dublin, James.
Donaldson, Harry.
Evans, Erick Ray, 1950-1999.
Jones, Wayson, 1957-
Morrison, Toni.
Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014
Sankofa Film & Video.
British Film Institute.
Strand Releasing (Firm)
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| Notes: | Produced as a British motion picture in 1989.
Special features: Commentary track with Isaac Julien & Nina Kellgren [optional audio feature]; Photo gallery [slide show] (7 min.); "The attendant" [featurette] (8 min.); Other Strand titles [previews] (9 min.).
Director of photography, Nina Kellgren ; editor: Robert Hargreaves ; art director, Derek Brown ; costume designer, Robert Worley ; research, Mark Nash.
Ben Ellison (Alex), Matthew Baidoo (Beauty), Akim Mogaji (James), John Wilson (Karl), Dencil Williams (Marcus), Guy Burgess (Dean), James Dublin (Carlos), Harry Donaldson (Leatherboy); American voices, Erick Ray Evans, Essex Hemphill, Wayson Jones, Toni Morrison; British voice, Stuart Hall.
DVD, NTSC.
In English with optional subtitles for the hearing impaired.
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| Summary: | This self-described meditation on the life of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes addresses the possible, possibly imagined, life of the author as a gay man. Both documentary and fantasy, it blends archival footage with black and white paeans to a life that might have been--a Harlem nightclub from the 1920s, a London nightspot from the late eighties, various dream sequences--foregrounding gay sexual desire, constructed of a meĢlange of materials. Looking for Langston is not a mainstream film, but a short film, an avant-garde film, a gay film, and a black British film. Indeed, the prospect of viewing the film can be an off-putting one, considering its competing narrative lines as documentary, reclamation of an aspect of black history, rumination on the AIDS crisis, or pure fantasy.
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| Awards: | Winner, Gay and Lesbian Award of the Berlin International Film Festival "Teddy," Best Short Film, 1989 Berlin International Film Festival.
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| Standard no.: | 712267271627
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| Publisher's no.: | 2716-2 Strand Releasing
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