Film at the Columbus + Courtland Club present
SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974) at 8:45pm
and
SUN RA: A JOYFUL NOISE (1980) 7:30pm
SPACE IS THE PLACE
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.
SUN RA: A JOYFUL NOISE
A 60-minute portrait of visionary artist Sun Ra and his avant-garde jazz Arkestra filmed in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. in 1978 and 1980.