On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama, known as The Magic City, a segregated industrial town in the rural South. After leaving for Chicago at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most eccentric and prolific jazz musicians of this century, as well as the founder of a strange cosmic philosophy. A portrait of the artist as a young man as well as one of a city through time, The Magic City tells the story of Sun Ra’s relation to this city-universe.
Production : Naoko Films (Vincent Metzinger) & Les Films de la Butte (FR)
Coproduction : CBA
With the support of the Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
