User:Aitantv/Space is the Place, Sun Ra

Space Is the Place (1974) dir. John Coney. Starring Sun Ra. 122min. Color. Stereo.

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• "The music is different here. The vibrations are different, not like planet Earth. Planet earth sounds of guns, anger and frustration. There was no one on planet earth to talk to who would understand. We setup a colony of black people here, to see what they could do with a planet of their own without any white people there. They could drink in the beauty of this planet."
• "Equation wise the first thing to do is consider time officially ended. We work on the other side of time."
• "Or better still teleport the whole planet here through music."
• “I’m not real, I’m just like you. You don’t exist in this society. If you did your people wouldn’t be seeking equal rights.You’re not real, if you were you’d have some status among the nations of the world. So we are both myths. I do not come to you as a reality, I come to you as the myth because that is what black people are: myths. I came from a dream that the black man dreamed long ago. I’m actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.”

+ intersection of sci-fi and documentary - notable the scene in the community center where Sun Ra is recruiting people to travel to the void.

+ Is there such thing as a Jewish culture that can be mediated? Is Jewish culture always secondary to the host culture? Can we speak of Jewish art or simply art made by Jews? Is there commonality amongst diasporic cultures? With afro-futurism and afro-surrealism, can we speak of Jewish-futurism? What does that look like? Which artists are enacting this already?