Sun Ra Movies

  • 2017
    Rebirth Is Necessary

    Rebirth Is Necessary

    Rebirth Is Necessary

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    Director Jenn Nkiru authors a personal and powerful exploration of blackness through piecing together dreamlike portraits with stunning archival foota...

    Rebirth Is Necessary
  • 1974
    Space Is the Place

    Space Is the Place

    Space Is the Place

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    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 youth...

    Space Is the Place
  • 1980
    Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

    Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

    Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

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    Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film...

    Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise
  • 2013
    I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore: Film, Stories & Images from the Mississippi Records and Alan Lomax Archive

    I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore: Film, Stories & Images from the Mississippi Records and Alan Lomax Archive

    I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore: Film, Stories & Images from the Mississippi Records and Alan Lomax Archive

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    A film, music and aural presentation by Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records, Portland, USA. Featuring archival film, images & stories spanning 18...

    I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore: Film, Stories & Images from the Mississippi Records and Alan Lomax Archive
  • 2023
    Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

    Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

    Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

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    "Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”— commissioned by The H...

    Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
  • 1966
    The Magic Sun

    The Magic Sun

    The Magic Sun

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    Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-c...

    The Magic Sun
  • 2024
    John Cage Meets Sun Ra

    John Cage Meets Sun Ra

    John Cage Meets Sun Ra

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    The never-before-seen in its entirety, visual documentation proving this avant-garde collaboration of mythic proportions did indeed occur. Recorded at...

    John Cage Meets Sun Ra
  • 1968
    Spaceways

    Spaceways

    Spaceways

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    A music documentary made with Sun Ra.

    Spaceways
  • 1984
    Mystery Mister Ra

    Mystery Mister Ra

    Mystery Mister Ra

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    Sun Ra, Archie Shepp and company in concert in Paris, 1984. Documents performances and rehearsals in Paris, France, 1984. It includes the compositions...

    Mystery Mister Ra
  • 2005
    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

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    Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in...

    Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
  • 2008
    Jazz Evolution

    Jazz Evolution

    Jazz Evolution

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    Jazz Evolution