Directed by Moshé Mizrahi • 1970 • France
Starring Bernadette Lafont, Michel Duchaussoy, Serge Marquand
A long-lost gem of New Wave–inspired French cinema, LES STANCES À SOPHIE (“Sophie’s Ways”) features an exhilarating avant-garde jazz soundtrack by the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago that ra...
Directed by John Coney • 1974 • United States
Starring Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson
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 comment...
Directed by Robert Mugge • 1980 • United States
Starring Sun Ra, June Tyson, Danny Thompson
Years ahead of his time, composer, keyboardist, bandleader, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern Am...
