Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)

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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.

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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Olamide Faison
Olamide Faison as Young Malcolm Age 42 · New York City, New York, U.S. Olamide Faison (born July 21, 1983) is an actor, known for Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015), Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) and Sesame Street (1969). Faison is also a singer/musician and the lead...
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito as Autobiography Reading (voice) Age 68 · Copenhagen, Denmark Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad from 2009 to 2011 and its prequel ser...
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco as FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco) Age 66 · New York, New York, U.S.A. Coco Fusco, born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares, is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gend...
Spike Lee
Spike Lee Age 69 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contempo...
Yuri Kochiyama
Yuri Kochiyama Died 2014 · San Pedro, California, USA Yuri Kochiyama (河内山 百合子 (ユリ・コウチヤマ), Kōchiyama Yuriko; born Mary Yuriko Nakahara; May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was an American civil rights activist born in San Pedro, California. She was interned at t...
Robin D.G. Kelley
Robin D.G. Kelley as (as Robin Kelley) Age 64 · New York City, New York, USA Robin Davis Gibran Kelley is an American historian and academic. He is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA.
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