Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993 | 52m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | John Akomfrah |
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| Writer: | Edward George, John Akomfrah |
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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. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 01, 1993 |
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| Director: | John Akomfrah |
| Writer: | Edward George, John Akomfrah |
| Genres: | Documentary |
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| Production Companies | Channel 4 Television, Black Audio Film Collective |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Darrick Harris | Malcolm X |
| 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) |
| Tiffany Nelson | Girl |
| Tiffany Tate | Girl |
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Edward George | Writer |
| Trevor Mathison | Original Music Composer |
| Joy Chamberlain | Editor |
| John Akomfrah | Director, Writer |
| Arthur Jafa | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Lina Gopaul | Producer |
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