Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
- Released
- 1993-10-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- John Akomfrah
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Darrick Harris as Malcolm X
- Danny Carter as Malcolm's Man
- Martin Boothe as Malcolm's Man
- Byron O. Hurlock as Malcolm's Man
- Edward George as Malcolm's Man
- Tricia Rose as Malcolm's Mother
- Theodore L. Cash as Malcolm's Father
- Olamide Faison as Young Malcolm
- Giancarlo Esposito as Autobiography Reading (voice)
- Toni Cade Bambara as Commentary (voice)
- Coco Fusco as FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)
- Tiffany Nelson as Girl