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Sun Ra - Space is the Place (DVD, 2003)

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A jazz innovator for decades, Sun Ra created a sound that could easily have come from his home planet--Saturn. The legend around Sun Ra is bizarre and complex, and it's one element in John Coney's insane 1974 film SPACE IS THE PLACE. Conceived as a vehicle for Sun Ra and his music, the film blends 1950s sci-fi, '70s Blaxploitation, and Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL in an intense, provocative mix. The story involves Sun Ra, an intergalactic messenger sent to Earth to spread a message of peace and love, and to take disaffected and downtrodden black Americans to his astral utopia. He finds opposition, however, in the Overseer, a white-suited devil who cruises around in a huge Cadillac, and always has a woman on each arm. That the Overseer, like Sun Ra, is black underscores the film's point that sometimes oppression can come from within. The director's cut revives the issues dealt with in the film and highlights Sun Ra's career. The innovative combination of social commentary and psychedelic musical space adventure captures the funkiness of the counter-culture blossoming throughout the 1960s.

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UPC0082354001322

eBay Product ID (ePID)3437247

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ActorSun Ra

RatingNR

Movie/TV TitleSun Ra-Space Is the Place

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

GenreMusical & Performing Arts

Sub-GenrePop Music

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Region CodeRegion0

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Signal StandardDvd

Leading RoleSun Ra

Release Date20031028

Film CountryUSA

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by yahmta_sock0yh7
27 Nov, 2019
A genuine time capsule jazzrockumentary! Praise RA!
It's just like hanging out with RA, just a little more RAW in an Oakland 70's way,i.e.World Champs Raiders,A's & SUN RA! How beautiful,honest and real the Bay Area USED to be!!!! Shilicon Valley bought out the property and now every immigrant is a quick cash opportunist! Buy,buy Cali!!
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by ZlXwgc4FR9C@Deleted
08 May, 2018
Amazing film break it down and analyze
If you understand the metaphysics behind Sun Ra's message of vibration (music) being a vehicle that you can travel spiritually to many places and being aware of your heritage in the cosmos. Analyze the meanings behind what hes saying a lot of it you cant take literally as hes mentioning a galactic picture.
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