Seven Songs for Malcolm X
01/10/1993
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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Darrick Harris
as Malcolm X
Danny Carter
as Malcolm's Man
Martin Boothe
as Malcolm's Man
Byron O. Hurlock
as Malcolm's Man
Edward George
as Malcolm's Man
Tricia Rose
as Malcolm's Mother
Theodore L. Cash
as Malcolm's Father
Olamide Faison
as Young Malcolm
Giancarlo Esposito
as Autobiography Reading (voice)
Toni Cade Bambara
as Commentary (voice)
Coco Fusco
as FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)
Tiffany Nelson
as Girl
Tiffany Tate
as Girl
Wilfred X
as (as Wilfred Little)
Betty Shabazz
as
Spike Lee
as
Greg Tate
as
Hassan El-Sayeed
as
Yuri Kochiyama
as
Thulani Davis
as
Robin D.G. Kelley
as (as Robin Kelley)
Patricia Williams
as
William Kunstler
as
Benjamin 2X
as (as Iman Benjamin Karim)
John Henrik Clarke
as
Peter Goldman
as
James Farmer
as
Jan Carew
as
Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis
as
Peter Bailey
as
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