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.
Darrick Harris
Danny Carter
Martin Boothe
Byron O. Hurlock
Edward George
Tricia Rose
Theodore L. Cash
Olamide Faison
Giancarlo Esposito
Toni Cade Bambara
Coco Fusco
Tiffany Nelson
Tiffany Tate
Wilfred X
Betty Shabazz
Spike Lee
Greg Tate
Hassan El-Sayeed
Yuri Kochiyama
Thulani Davis
Robin D.G. Kelley
Patricia Williams
William Kunstler
Benjamin 2X
John Henrik Clarke
Peter Goldman
James Farmer
Jan Carew
Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis
Peter Bailey