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Documentary Monday - Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

As part of the ongoing series of summer events with our partners, MOFFOM returns to Documentary Monday at Kino Svetozor with a reprise of Don Letts' film Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet. The film received its festival premiere at MOFFOM 2005 and is the first comprehensive documentary about the ultimate music visionary.

Born in Alabama, then the most segragted place on Earth, Sun Ra rejected convention and claimed to be from Saturn, "planet of discipline." He brought together Egyptology and the imagery of the Space Age to project a philosophy of radical empowerment - for the entire Cosmos. Keeping a big band on the road for decades through independence and communal living, Sun Ra became a patriarch of jazz.

Punk film legend Don Letts presents the Sun Ra story in all its glory, combining powerful footage of Ra and his legendary Arkestra, interviews with band members shot at their famous group house in Philadelphia, and testimony from Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka, John Sinclair and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.

Kino Světozor, Monday 30 July, 20:30, Admission 80 Kč.

More information at www.kinosvetozor.cz