Released:
1993-10-01

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.

Director:
John Akomfrah

Runtime:
0h 52min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Darrick Harris
  as
  Malcolm X
• 
  Danny Carter
  as
  Malcolm's Man
• 
  Martin Boothe
  as
  Malcolm's Man
• 
  Byron O. Hurlock
  as
  Malcolm's Man
• 
  Edward George
  as
  Malcolm's Man