Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra, The

The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra (2025)

Name: The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2026-09-28T18:59:06+02:00

Documentary | 100 minutes

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Genre: Documentary / Music

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: Italy / Belgium / France

Directed by: Guillaume Maupin and Pablo Guarise

Stars: Sun Ra, Nganji Mutiri and Wilhelmina Thomas

IMDb score: 7,4 (14)

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The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra plot

Before the world and the cosmos came to know him as the Afrofuturistic 'space jazz' pioneer Sun Ra, he was born and raised as Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, in the heart of the American state of Alabama. The documentary reveals how the lesser-known but magical music city shaped the mysterious visionary in his early years. Inevitably, the story is marked by a history of slavery, segregation, and racism. At the same time, the musician's gaze remained hopefully fixed on a harmonious future.