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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Seven Songs for Malcolm X

October 1, 1993

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Cast (30)

Malcolm X

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Man

Malcolm's Mother

Malcolm's Father

Young Malcolm

Autobiography Reading (voice)

Commentary (voice)

FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)

Girl

Girl

(as Wilfred Little)

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(as Robin Kelley)

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(as Iman Benjamin Karim)

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Crew (7)

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