Robert Philipson Movies

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their...

Adam, a white man in his late 30s, is visiting his Black ex-lover, Peter, who is dying of AIDS in a DC hospital. The year is 1993. Also in attendance...

Harlem, 1926. A “sweetman” Zeddy, living off a woman, brings a country girl he’s trying to impress to a gay-owned cabaret. There he...

Meet LaMott Atkins: closeted football star, closeted disco singer, closeted model, actor, son and lover. And he’s African-American… and...

Rockland Palace hosted the largest of the drag balls in not only Harlem but New York City during the Roaring Twenties. This stylized reimagining of...

Contemporary cover of a 1928 blues song written and performed by Ma Rainey with explicitly lesbian lyrics.

A documentary about the jazz standard and it's roots in Jewish and African-American culture/