Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Release Date: 1993-10-01

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.

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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