Seven Songs for Malcolm X

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.

• John AkomfrahDirector
• Trevor MathisonOriginal Music Composer
• Edward GeorgeWriter
• John AkomfrahWriter

• Darrick HarrisMalcolm X
• Danny CarterMalcolm's Man
• Martin BootheMalcolm's Man
• Byron O. HurlockMalcolm's Man
• Edward GeorgeMalcolm's Man
• Tricia RoseMalcolm's Mother
• Theodore L. CashMalcolm's Father
• Olamide FaisonYoung Malcolm
• Giancarlo EspositoAutobiography Reading (voice)
• Toni Cade BambaraCommentary (voice)
• Coco FuscoFBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)
• Tiffany NelsonGirl