The Magic City – Birmingham according to Sun Ra
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.
Scénario: Guillaume Maupin et Paolo Guarise / Réalisation : Guillaume Maupin et Pablo Guarise
Accompagnement laboratoire d’images animées individuel: Caroline Nugues-Bourchat
DIR PHOTO : Alexi Van Hennecker
MONTAGE : Justin McKenzie Peers
SON : Jeremy Burns & Chris Burns
MONTEUR SON : Marco Saitta
MIX : Marco Saitta
ETALONNAGE : Chiara Pontuali
Produit par Naoko Films.
Coproductions : Dadide Mastropaolo, Audioimage (IT) / Nicolas Lesoult, Les Films de la Butte (FR) / Ellen Meiresonne, Atelier Graphoui (BE) / Steven Dhoedt, Visualantics (BE VL) / Umedia (BE).
Soutiens : CCA, CNC, Procirep-Angoa, CBA, Graphoui, VAF, RTBF, Proximus, Région Bruxelles-Capitale
