
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
52 minutes1993-10-01
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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 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
