Space Is the Place (1974)
- Directed by
- John Coney
- Genre
- science fiction film, adventure film, blaxploitation film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rated
- R18+
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 47 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Sun Ra plays himself, a cosmic musician who travels back to 1970s Chicago to recruit Black people for a new planet. He debates a pimp over the fate of the community and uses his music as a tool for liberation.
psychedelicsurrealmusicalphilosophicalexperimentalcampyslow-pacedvisionary
What happens
Space Is the Place is an Afrofuturist science fiction film made in 1972 and released in 1974. It was directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith, and features Sun Ra and his Arkestra. A soundtrack was released on Evidence Records. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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