SLAM Cinema—Space Is the Place at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Date: Friday, June 12
Time: 6:30–8:15 p.m.
Location: The Farrell Auditorium
Cost: Free

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, social commentary, 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. Rated R, 1 hour, 22 minutes.