Space is the Place

Space is the Place by John Coney
Avant-jazz visionary Sun Ra’s Afrofuturist vision comes to the screen in this film adaptation of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, incisive social critique, playful pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and electrifying concert sequences, as Sun Ra and his Arkestra spearhead an intergalactic mission to relocate the Black community to their utopian space colony.
85 minutes, 1974

The Modern Art Museum and the Latin American Film Center NYC present Echoes of Césaire, a film presentation on July 20 and 27 in conjunction with the Modern’s special exhibition Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940. 
Learn more about the film presentation here.