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Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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.

Top Cast

  • Darrick Harris

    Darrick Harris

    Malcolm X

  • Danny Carter

    Danny Carter

    Malcolm's Man

  • Martin Boothe

    Martin Boothe

    Malcolm's Man

  • Byron O. Hurlock

    Byron O. Hurlock

    Malcolm's Man

  • Edward George

    Edward George

    Malcolm's Man

  • Tricia Rose

    Tricia Rose

    Malcolm's Mother

  • Theodore L. Cash

    Theodore L. Cash

    Malcolm's Father

  • Olamide Faison

    Olamide Faison

    Young Malcolm

  • Giancarlo Esposito

    Giancarlo Esposito

    Autobiography Reading (voice)

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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