Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993/10/01 • Released • English

Documentary
0.0
52m

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.

Director : John Akomfrah

Casts

Darrick Harris

Malcolm X

Danny Carter

Malcolm's Man

Martin Boothe

Malcolm's Man

Byron O. Hurlock

Malcolm's Man

Edward George

Malcolm's Man

Tricia Rose

Malcolm's Mother

Theodore L. Cash

Malcolm's Father

Olamide Faison

Young Malcolm

Giancarlo Esposito

Giancarlo Esposito

Autobiography Reading (voice)

Toni Cade Bambara

Commentary (voice)

Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco

FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)

Tiffany Nelson

Girl

Tiffany Tate

Girl

Wilfred X

(as Wilfred Little)

Betty Shabazz

Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Greg Tate

Hassan El-Sayeed

Yuri Kochiyama

Thulani Davis

Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley

(as Robin Kelley)

Patricia Williams

William Kunstler

Benjamin 2X

(as Iman Benjamin Karim)

John Henrik Clarke

Peter Goldman

James Farmer

James Farmer

Jan Carew

Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis

Peter Bailey

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