1993
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0h 52m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Black Audio Film Collective
Channel 4 Television
Channel 4 Television
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
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.
Key Crew
Director: John Akomfrah
Writer: John Akomfrah, Edward George
Producer: Lina Gopaul
Director of Photography: Arthur Jafa
