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FILM POP & PHI present:
SPACE IS THE PLACE
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Show: 6:30PM
$16 (taxes incl.) online
— United States, 1974, 82 min, Original English version–
This screening is presented in parallel with the exhibition Josèfa Ntjam: swell of spæc(i)es, presented from September 10 to January 11, 2026 at PHI.
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.
