Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Watch seven songs for malcolm x soap2day. 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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: John Akomfrah
- Cast: Darrick Harris, Danny Carter, Martin Boothe, Byron O. Hurlock, Edward George, Tricia Rose, Theodore L. Cash, Olamide Faison, Giancarlo Esposito, Toni Cade Bambara, Coco Fusco, Tiffany Nelson, Tiffany Tate, Wilfred X, Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, Greg Tate, Hassan El-Sayeed, Yuri Kochiyama, Thulani Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley,
