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Space Is the Place (1974)

Directed by


Starring
Sun Ra Sun Ra
Himself
Danny Thompson Danny Thompson
Arkestra member
Jack Baker Jack Baker
Bubbles


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Description: A spaceship travels through space. Sun Ra Arkestra singer June Tyson says, "It's after the end of the world - don't you know that yet?" The shot tracks over a painting of a forest. Sun Ra walks through a forest, followed by a mirror-faced person. Strange alien life forms surround him. Sun Ra says the planet that he's on is different from Earth. He explains that he might bring black people here from there so they can thrive without white people. It's Chicago, 1943, in a bar with girls dancing on a stage. Sun Ra plays the piano, wearing glasses. The Overseer (Raymond Johnson), a black man in a white suit and hat, w ... (more)
Release date: 1 November 1974
UPC: 082354001322
Tags: Sci-fi (1), Music (1), Blaxploitation (1)
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"A virtuosic musician who combined boundary-pushing innovations with chintzy sci-fi theatrics and far-out ideas about the black man’s place in the cosmos, Sun Ra was a truly unique figure in the history of 20th-century music. Equal parts blaxploitation thriller and experimental, John Coney’s Space Is the Place, in which the musician stars as himself, mixes together all of Ra’s obsessions—including flying saucers, ancient Egyptian mythology, glittery, over-the-top costumes, and, of course,"


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