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 Akomfrah
Director, Writer
Edward George
Writer
Darrick Harris
Malcolm X
Danny Carter
Malcolm's Man
Martin Boothe
Malcolm's Man
Byron O. Hurlock
Malcolm's Man
Edward George
Malcolm's Man
Tricia Rose
Malcolm's Mother
Theodore L. Cash
Malcolm's Father
Olamide Faison
Young Malcolm
Giancarlo Esposito
Autobiography Reading (voice)
McQueen74%
The Class of ‘9271%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Above Majestic73%
Love, Marilyn66%
Elstree 197661%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Sidney70%
Directed by John Ford70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
180° South72%
Night Will Fall76%
Looking for Richard68%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Being James Bond77%
The Captains63%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
