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Space Is the Place
1974 · Film · 81 min
Directed by John Coney
Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himself "the alter-destiny", meets with inner-city youths and battles with the devil himself to save the black race.
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A while back I somehow managed to watch Space Is the Place[1] without knowing anything about Sun Ra. The discovery that he was not an actor and was instead a great jazz musician was a wild one. If you haven't seen it, Space Is the Place is a super interesting look into early Afrofuturist films and Sun Ra as a character.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072195/
Last year I went to the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art because they had an exhibit regarding space architecture (both real and from film).
Among the space suits and models were film clips denoting different creativity and functionality in space -- buildings, clothing, interiors, exteriors, vehicles, &c.
One of the film clips was from Sun Ra's 'Space Is The Place'. When I got home I found it on Youtube to watch more. It's a trip.
Thanks for posting this! I remember seeing Sun Ra with June Tyson and John Gilmore sometime in the 70s performing Space is the Place. Never knew there was a movie.