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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

52 minutes

Year:

1993

Director:

John Akomfrah

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Company:

Black Audio Film Collective,

Channel 4 Television

Cast:

Malcolm X

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Man

Crew:

Director

Writer

Writer

Director of Photography

Original Music Composer