Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
| 01 October 1993 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.