Compilation/Packaged Set: Looking for Langston
Barcode 712267271627
Release Date 2007
Purchase Date 2017
Store Amazon.com
Condition New

Primary Entry - Looking for Langston
Includes Short Film by Isaac Julien The Attendant


The Attendant
 (1993)
Experimental/Avant-Garde/Art House, Queer Themes/Interest, Music Video, Short
In Collection
#1125
5*
Seen ItYes
(8/29/2017)
IMDB   5.8
8 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
Thomas Baptiste Attendant
Cleo Sylvestre Conservator
John Wilson Visitor
Director/Choreographer
Isaac Julien

Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.
Edition Details
Distributor Strand Releasing
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Tags bdsm

Notes
The short, The Attendant is included on the Strand edition of Looking for Langston· While an interesting narrative, it never grabbed me·