Films

Speaking in Tongues

Still of Milford Graves from Doug Hall’s Speaking in Tongues, courtesy of Doug Hall

Doug Harris's 1982 avant-garde jazz film Speaking in Tongues was funded by German Public Television and broadcast throughout Europe when it was first released. The now rarely seen work features saxophonist David Murray, percussionist Milford Graves, and poet-playwright and novelist Amiri Baraka, and serves as a tribute to Albert Ayler, a tenor saxophonist who was a leader in the free-style jazz movement before his mysterious death in 1970. (Doug Hall, 1982, analogue video to digital, 75 minutes)

Programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement: 1955-1985, open from September 21, 2025 to January 11, 2026.

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