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Film / 1993
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Directed by
John Akomfrah
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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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
Darrick HarrisMalcolm X
Danny CarterMalcolm's Man
Martin BootheMalcolm's Man
Byron O. HurlockMalcolm's Man
Edward GeorgeMalcolm's Man
Tricia RoseMalcolm's Mother
Theodore L. CashMalcolm's Father
Olamide FaisonYoung Malcolm
Giancarlo EspositoAutobiography Reading (voice)
Toni Cade BambaraCommentary (voice)
Coco FuscoFBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)
Tiffany NelsonGirl
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Tiffany TateGirl
Wilfred X(as Wilfred Little)
Betty Shabazz
Spike Lee
Greg Tate
Hassan El-Sayeed
Yuri Kochiyama
Thulani Davis
Robin D.G. Kelley(as Robin Kelley)
Patricia Williams
William Kunstler
Benjamin 2X(as Iman Benjamin Karim)
John Henrik Clarke
Peter Goldman
James Farmer
Jan Carew
Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis
Peter Bailey
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