Wed, June 21 / 7pm
Fri, June 23 / 9:15pm
Sat, June 24 / 5pm
Sun, June 25 / 3pm
Wed, June 28 / 9:30pm
Dir. John Coney
1974, USA, 85 min
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.
Presented in collaboration with TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival.
