" Space is The Place"

This is just a taste of the full length journey in this film. A must have for the true fan. 'Sun Ra Space is The Place'1974 DVD/vhs As a genre film Space is the Place is a near-facsimile and may have been dated upon its release in 1974 (it followed Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song by three years). To its benefit there is the aspect of space travel, which is foreign to blaxploitation despite its prolific versatility as a genre. The film opens with Ra on a foreign planet, commenting on how the locale would sanction the black race. He returns to earth to recruit a debut colony. This premise is biographically accurate (Sun Ra famously claimed to be from Saturn). In added consistency Ra also penned all of his dialogue. According to the film’s director and producer, the artistic investment of their star was more critical and exacting than their tasks in marketing him. This is an organic, realistic detail in a film constructed from familiar genre elements. MORE BUY