The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra (18)
A portrait of the cosmic jazz pioneer as a young man.
Mon 12 Oct
18:15
Mon 12 Oct
18:15
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Mon 12 Oct
On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama - known as The Magic City - a segregated industrial town in the rural South. After leaving for Chicago at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most eccentric and prolific jazz musicians of this century, as well as the founder of a strange cosmic philosophy.
A portrait of the artist as a young man as well as a document of a city through time, The Magic City tells the story of Sun Ra’s relation to this city-universe.
- Director
- Guillaume Maupin, Pablo Guarise
- Duration
- 100 min
- Opening
- Mon 12 Oct
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- Belgium, France
- Language
- English
Certificate: 18
