Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1993-10-01
  • Runtime: 0h 52min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Black Audio Film Collective
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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Summary

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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  • Directing John Akomfrah Director
    Writing John Akomfrah Writer
    Sound Trevor Mathison Original Music Composer
    Writing Edward George Writer
    Camera Arthur Jafa Director of Photography
    Production Lina Gopaul Producer
    Editing Joy Chamberlain Editor