SPACE IS THE PLACE Production: USA, 1974 Director: John Coney Category: Avant-Jazz/Black Power An incredible vehicle for the psychedelic talents of Sun Ra, the radical space-age free-jazz philosopher. Performance footage of his amazing Intergalactic Solar Arkestra is inserted into a plot that mixes a 1950s SF aesthetic with revolutionary politics and elements of Continue Reading
Popular Music
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO Production: USA, 1966 Director: Andy Warhol Category: Popular Music 70-minute film of the Velvet Underground performing an instrumental jam at Warhol’s Factory, with much zooming in and out – a sometimes frustrating but still exciting glimpse of this seminal rock and roll band at their very inception. The Continue Reading
CHARLIE IS MY DARLING + 1
CHARLIE IS MY DARLING Production: UK, 1965 Director: Peter Whitehead Category: Documentary An early hybrid of cinema-verité, rockumentary and road movie, Charlie Is My Darling lies at the forefront of all these genres with regards to the history of film in the UK. Whitehead went on the road with The Rolling Stones, filming Continue Reading