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Seven Songs for Malcolm X

1993-10-01 en 52m
Documentary
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.

Director

John Akomfrah

Writer

John Akomfrah

Writer

Edward George

Producer

Lina Gopaul

Original Music Composer

Trevor Mathison

Director of Photography

Arthur Jafa

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • Black Audio Film Collective
  • Channel 4 Television