Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1993-10-01
  • Runtime: 0h 52min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Black Audio Film Collective
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: John Akomfrah

Summary

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.

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  • 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

  • Tiffany Tate

    as Girl

  • Wilfred X

    as (as Wilfred Little)

  • Betty Shabazz

    as

  • Spike Lee

    as

  • Greg Tate

    as

  • Hassan El-Sayeed

    as

  • Yuri Kochiyama

    as

  • Thulani Davis

    as

  • Robin D.G. Kelley

    as (as Robin Kelley)

  • Patricia Williams

    as

  • William Kunstler

    as

  • Benjamin 2X

    as (as Iman Benjamin Karim)

  • John Henrik Clarke

    as

  • Peter Goldman

    as

  • James Farmer

    as

  • Jan Carew

    as

  • Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis

    as

  • Peter Bailey

    as
Directing John Akomfrah Director
Sound Trevor Mathison Original Music Composer
Writing Edward George Writer
Editing Joy Chamberlain Editor
Camera Arthur Jafa Director of Photography
Production Lina Gopaul Producer
Writing John Akomfrah Writer

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