Fascinating! Cerebral and sensual. --VarietyThe Nine Muses is the kind of nonfiction film I actively hope for. --Slant MagazineConfirms John Akomfrah as one of the UK s most singular and visionary filmmakers. --London Film FestivalIntense and visually gorgeous. -Sight and SoundHighly engrossing cine-poem... dazzling beauty. --Time OutCrisply original and utterly seductive. ---- The New StatesmanSeven Songs of Malcolm X: An engrossing portrait...a testament to his journey beyond separatism towards a wider political perspective: a specifically black vision of human rights. - Time Out The most enlightening piece on the man and his life that you ll see. - The Wire (UK) --Time Out / The WireOffers an abundance of challenging ideas. The New York Times The playfulness and intellectual virtuosity of the film transcends its surface gloss, to become a kaleidoscopic celebration of the richness of Pan-African culture. Afterimage A compelling vision of futurism in black society. Dallas Observer A 45-minute meditation on black consciousness whose dense, almost chaotic weave of images and ideas offers space travel and science fiction as metaphors for the experience of the African diaspora. Chicago Reader --New York Times / Afterimage / Dallas Observer / Chicago ReaderSeven Songs of Malcolm X: An engrossing portrait...a testament to his journey beyond separatism towards a wider political perspective: a specifically black vision of human rights. - Time Out The most enlightening piece on the man and his life that you ll see. - The Wire (UK) --Time Out / The WireOffers an abundance of challenging ideas. The New York Times The playfulness and intellectual virtuosity of the film transcends its surface gloss, to become a kaleidoscopic celebration of the richness of Pan-African culture.  Afterimage A compelling vision of futurism in black society. Dallas Observer A 45-minute meditation on black consciousness whose dense,  almost chaotic weave of images and ideas offers space travel and science fiction as metaphors for the experience of the African diaspora.  Chicago Reader --New York Times / Afterimage / Dallas Observer / Chicago Reader