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.
CAST
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
Toni Cade BambaraCommentary (voice)
Tiffany NelsonGirl
Tiffany TateGirl
Wilfred X(as Wilfred Little)
Betty Shabazz
