Documentary

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Name: Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Director: John Akomfrah
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1993-10-01
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 10.0
Cast: Darrick Harris, Danny Carter, Martin Boothe, Byron O. Hurlock, Edward George

October 1, 1993

52m

TMDB10.0· 1

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.