SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X (1993)

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Documentary
October 1, 1993
English
0h 52m
England, United States
Black Audio Film Collective

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.

Cast & Characters

Danny Carter

Malcolm's Man

Martin Boothe

Malcolm's Man

Byron O. Hurlock

Malcolm's Man

Edward George

Malcolm's Man

Tricia Rose

Malcolm's Mother

Theodore L. Cash

Malcolm's Father

Olamide Faison

Young Malcolm

Giancarlo Esposito

Autobiography Reading (voice)

Toni Cade Bambara

Commentary (voice)

Coco Fusco

FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)

Wilfred X

(as Wilfred Little)

Robin D.G. Kelley

(as Robin Kelley)

Benjamin 2X

(as Iman Benjamin Karim)

Crew

Trevor Mathison

Original Music Composer

Arthur Jafa

Director of Photography

Lina Gopaul

Producer