Afrofuturism &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Afrofuturism @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:55:36 +0200 Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/top-of-the-heap-1972 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" 10 A.M./div div class="img" Top of the Heap (1972)/div div class="caption" An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #ChristopherStJohn #PaulaKelly #JiTuCumbuka #BrianCutler #JJJohnson #RichardAKelley #drama #AfroFuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)

Aug

16

10 A.M.

Top of the Heap (1972)

An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley.

#FilmDuJour #August #ChristopherStJohn #PaulaKelly #JiTuCumbuka #BrianCutler #JJJohnson #RichardAKelley #drama #AfroFuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/top-of-the-heap-1972 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Space Is the Place (John Coney, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4rxd <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Space Is the Place (John Coney, 1974)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" Space Shuttle/div div class="img" Space Is the Place (1974)/div div class="caption" Ra's arrival. DP: Seth Hill./div div class="txt" A film about space travel on the day Nixon announced the Space Shuttle program in 1972. "I came from a dream that the Black man dreamed long ago. I’m actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors." ### – Sun Ra /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #SpaceShuttle #JohnConey #SunRa #SunRaArkestra #MarshallAllen #JuneTyson #RaymondJohnson #ChristopherBrooks #BarbaraDeloney #ErikaLeder #JackBaker #SethHill #SciFi #drama #politics #jazz #Afrofuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Space Is the Place (John Coney, 1974)

Jan

5

Space Shuttle

Space Is the Place (1974)

Ra's arrival. DP: Seth Hill.

A film about space travel on the day Nixon announced the Space Shuttle program in 1972.

“I came from a dream that the Black man dreamed long ago. I’m actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.”

– Sun Ra

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #SpaceShuttle #JohnConey #SunRa #SunRaArkestra #MarshallAllen #JuneTyson #RaymondJohnson #ChristopherBrooks #BarbaraDeloney #ErikaLeder #JackBaker #SethHill #SciFi #drama #politics #jazz #Afrofuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4rxd Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:20:35 +0100 Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/sur-un-air-de-charleston-1927 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Extraterrestrial Culture Day/div div class="img" Sur un air de Charleston (1927)/div div class="caption" Parisian savage Catherine Hessling and African explorer Johnny Hudgins exploring each other's alien ways. DP: Jean Bachelet./div div class="txt" ##### Legendary African-American #vaudeville performer Johnny Hudgins – in historically correct Blackface – plays an African explorer who descends onto 2028 Paris to learn about the primitive ways of the white natives. Soon, he discovers the Charleston.\ "I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance." ### – Johnny Hudgins\ A fantastic Afrofuturist short, made a decade before Sun Ra's trip to Saturn./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ExtraterrestrialCultureDay #JeanRenoir #CatherineHessling #JohnnyHudgins #ClementDoucet #JeanBachelet #ShortFilm #comedy #dance #Blackface #SilentFilm #ethnography #Afrofuturism #SciFi #Paris #France #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Sur un air de Charleston [Charleston Parade] (Jean Renoir, 1927)

Feb

14

Extraterrestrial Culture Day

Sur un air de Charleston (1927)

Parisian savage Catherine Hessling and African explorer Johnny Hudgins exploring each other's alien ways. DP: Jean Bachelet.

Legendary African-American #vaudeville performer Johnny Hudgins – in historically correct Blackface – plays an African explorer who descends onto 2028 Paris to learn about the primitive ways of the white natives. Soon, he discovers the Charleston.

“I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance.”

– Johnny Hudgins

A fantastic Afrofuturist short, made a decade before Sun Ra's trip to Saturn.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ExtraterrestrialCultureDay #JeanRenoir #CatherineHessling #JohnnyHudgins #ClementDoucet #JeanBachelet #ShortFilm #comedy #dance #Blackface #SilentFilm #ethnography #Afrofuturism #SciFi #Paris #France #1920s ★★★★☆

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