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Sun Ra: brother from another planet

Sun Ra: brother from another planet

(Sun Ra: brother from another planet), Don Letts / Velká Británie, 2005
English / Czech subtitles, 60 min

First comprehensive documentary about the ultimate music visionary. Born in Alabama, then the most segragted place on Earth, Sun Ra rejected convention and claimed to be from Saturn, "planet of discipline."

He brought together Egyptology and the imagery of the Space Age to project a philosophy of radical empowerment - for the entire Cosmos. Keeping a big band on the road for decades through independence and communal living, Sun Ra became a patriarch of jazz.

Punk film legend Don Letts presents the Sun Ra story in all its glory, combining powerful footage of Ra and his legendary Arkestra, interviews with band members shot at their famous group house in Philadelphia, and testimony from Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, John Sinclair and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.

The partner of the screening is the international music film festival Music on Film-Film on Music.