Movie Description
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
(1993)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : John Akomfrah
- Producer : Lina Gopaul
- Writer : John Akomfrah,Edward George
- Editor : Joy Chamberlain
- Cast : Darrick Harris,Danny Carter,Martin Boothe,Byron O. Hurlock,Edward George,Tricia Rose,Theodore L. Cash,Olamide Faison,Giancarlo Esposito,Toni Cade Bambara,Coco Fusco,Tiffany Nelson,Tiffany Tate,Wilfred X,Betty Shabazz,Spike Lee,Greg Tate,Hassan El-Sayeed,Yuri Kochiyama,Thulani Davis,Robin D.G. Kelley,Patricia Williams,William Kunstler,Benjamin 2X,John Henrik Clarke,Peter Goldman,James Farmer,Jan Carew,Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis,Peter Bailey
Cast
Malcolm X
Malcolm's Man
Malcolm's Man
Malcolm's Man
Malcolm's Man
Malcolm's Mother
Malcolm's Father
Young Malcolm
Autobiography Reading (voice)
Commentary (voice)
FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)
Girl
Girl
(as Wilfred Little)
(as Robin Kelley)
(as Iman Benjamin Karim)
Posters
Facts
Original TitleSeven Songs for Malcolm X
Status Released
Release Information
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1993-10-01
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 00h 52m
Production CompaniesBlack Audio Film Collective,Channel 4 Television
Genres
- Documentary
