Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut 2024

Directed by Ari Benjamin Meyers · 18 min

The work is centered around Marshall Allen, renowned free and avant-garde jazz musician and current leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, of which he has been a continual member since 1958. For this film, the artist composed two original scores for Allen to interpret, inviting him to engage, through music, in an intimate conversation about the spontaneity of music-making, the rigor of rehearsals, and the potentiality of collaboration.