Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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1993
0h 52m
10.0(1 votes)
Documentary

Overview

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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Channel 4 Television

Cast & Crew

30 members
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Darrick Harris

Malcolm X

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Danny Carter

Malcolm's Man

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Martin Boothe

Malcolm's Man

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Byron O. Hurlock

Malcolm's Man

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Writing

Edward George

Malcolm's Man

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Tricia Rose

Malcolm's Mother

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Theodore L. Cash

Malcolm's Father

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Olamide Faison

Young Malcolm

Olamide Faison
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Giancarlo Esposito

Autobiography Reading (voice)

Giancarlo Esposito
Writing

Toni Cade Bambara

Commentary (voice)

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Coco Fusco

FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)

Coco Fusco
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Tiffany Nelson

Girl

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Tiffany Tate

Girl

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Wilfred X

(as Wilfred Little)

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Betty Shabazz

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Spike Lee

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Spike Lee
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Greg Tate

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Hassan El-Sayeed

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Yuri Kochiyama

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Yuri Kochiyama
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Thulani Davis

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Robin D.G. Kelley

(as Robin Kelley)

Robin D.G. Kelley
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Patricia Williams

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William Kunstler

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Benjamin 2X

(as Iman Benjamin Karim)

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John Henrik Clarke

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Peter Goldman

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James Farmer

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James Farmer
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Jan Carew

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Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis

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Peter Bailey

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