Looking for Langston

This film is a visually beautiful and lyrical exploration of black and white gay identities. A poetic meditation on Langston Hughes's work and life-style during the jazz/blues infused Harlem Renaissance as one central motif for the representation of the black gay artist. The poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent and Langston Hughes are featured with a Jazz and Blues music: this and other texts weave through the stylized dramatic sequences and archive material in a film which celebrates gay desire and laments the attitudes these desires feit and expressed by contemporary society. In the words of James Baldwin :"A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them." (pressbook)