Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 1, 1993
• Runtime
• 52 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• John Akomfrah

Seven Songs for Malcolm X — Cast

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Darrick Harris Malcolm X

D

Danny Carter Malcolm's Man

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Martin Boothe Malcolm's Man

B

Byron O. Hurlock Malcolm's Man

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Edward George Malcolm's Man

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Tricia Rose Malcolm's Mother

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Theodore L. Cash Malcolm's Father Olamide Faison Young Malcolm