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Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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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.

Featured Crew

John Akomfrah
Director
Trevor Mathison
Original Music Composer

Cast

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Darrick Harris
Malcolm X
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Danny Carter
Malcolm's Man
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Martin Boothe
Malcolm's Man
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Byron O. Hurlock
Malcolm's Man
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Edward George
Malcolm's Man

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