A SUN RA DOUBLE FEATURE - SEE ONE OR SEE BOTH FOR THE SAME PRICE!  AS PART OF THE 18TH ANNUAL NM JAZZ FESTIVAL!  AN OUTPOST PERFORMANCE SPACE SPECIAL!

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.

"Illuminates Ra's work. For him, outer space wasn't just a gimmick or a convenient source of song titles. It was a zone where racism was inoperative." - Jon Pareles, New York Times

"Hits home, in the end, reveals that the director, John Coney, really got Sun Ra. In many ways, the film is a biopic, given all of Sun Ra’s ruminations about who he actually was and the purpose of his free jazz." - Lynne D. Johnson, PopMatters