Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993, English. Directed by John Akomfrah.
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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- 0h 52m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X is streaming on Philo, OVID, and Fandor in India.
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Cast & crew
- John AkomfrahDirector
- 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
Details
- Released
- 1 October 1993
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- John Akomfrah, Edward George
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X is streaming on Philo, OVID, and Fandor in India. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Seven Songs for Malcolm X?
Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) was directed by John Akomfrah and stars Darrick Harris, Danny Carter, Martin Boothe.