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The
Magic Sun Exceptional filmmaking, amazing soundtrack, abstract even by today's standards... and it's about 40 years old. This is composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's groundbreaking experimental film featuring the legendary Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra. Not a traditional concert film, this film is completely comprised of extreme close-ups at unusual angles, panning across the musicians hands, mouths, faces and instruments, in negative black and white. Upon casual viewing, the imagery is at times more of a psychedelic collage of patterns and shapes than recognizable human figures and features. Those are the main things that are great about the film, so what isn't? The fact that the first time I played it on my laptop, in a small window in the corner while I was working on something else, after a short time the credits started to roll. "That's the longest intro I've ever seen.", I thought. But it was the end credits, not the beginning. Maybe I only played one chapter. I gotta check the case and see what's up. Nope, running time: 17 minutes! What a tease... This should be playing in a museum - in one of those installations where you sit on the floor in the middle of the room and four projectors shoot different imagery on each wall around you - and they should pass out mescaline when you come in. *a fifteen minute photo gallery with never-before-heard proclamations from Sun Ra make up some for the brevity of the film, but I still want more... |
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