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Space is the Place

Space is the Place
Music, Sci-Fi, Cult classic | 1974 | R. 1hr 22min
CAST: Sun Ra, Raymond Johnson, Christopher Brooks DIRECTOR: John Coney WEIRD ELEPHANT | BLACK HISTORY MONTH | FEB 17 & 18, 2023

Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It's a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social commentary, goofy pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and thrilling concert performance, in which the pharaonic Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony.


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"It's impossible to look back on the literary and cultural aesthetic dubbed, "Afrofuturism," without this sonic piece of film/music history blasting into perspective. Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place" is the epitome of this unprecedented style. It"s the perfect combination of sci-fi, historical fiction, fantasy, and Afrocentrism for your eyeballs."
Kristy Senko-Hall, Beautifulbizarre.net
"The film delivers a polyrhythmic optic experience that may now be reduced to mere aestheticism but back then was the sign of a subterranean social and cultural current willing to transform potentiality into opportunity in spite of the marginal position of black people in Nixon"s America."
Celluloid Liberation Front, Electric Sheep Magazine
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