Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)

The Black Audio Film Collectives 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 Malcolms life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zees The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanovs The Colour of Pomegranates