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Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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1993

Runtime

52m

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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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
52m
Oct 1, 1993
Languages
English
Director
John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah
Production
Black Audio Film Collective
Black Audio Film Collective
Channel 4 Television
Channel 4 Television
Production Countries
United Kingdom

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