Space Is the Place

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Date: January 01, 1974 to December 31, 1974, January 01, 1993 to December 31, 1993
Dates Note: 1974, 1993
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964–1974
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Inspired by Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley course The Black Man in the Cosmos and filmed in Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Richmond, “Space Is the Place is an otherworldly frolic combining intergalactic bebop with riffs on black liberation. Director Coney's boldly mystical blaxploitation film takes to heart Sun Ra's cosmic philosophy of music as a liberating force. Performed by The Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra's music suffuses the hip-edelic atmosphere. Whimsical, funky, and alchemically whack, Space Is the Place takes on Afro-liberation, extraterrestrial activism, and whatever else enters the ever–expanding mind of Sun Ra" (Steve Seid). Please note: This is the uncut version.

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