The Deep West Assembly (2024)
Short film commissioned by the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Norway ...
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Cauleen Smith is associated with: The Deep West Assembly
Short film commissioned by the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Norway ...
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The imagery of the film is of volcanic scenes in various life stages, from pouring magma to inert mountain, with colors unnaturally saturated – purple, blue, and orange. The scratchy, chaotic aesthetic is created through Smith's proprietary process of pl ...
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Back in 2018 I invited an intergenerational group of women to help me make some moving-images in Noah Purifoy's Desert Museum in Joshua Tree. The resulting film, 'Sojourner,' contemplates centuries of black feminist mysticism and cultural production. Somet ...
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A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project. ...
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The word bone translates to yoruba as "bones." In Egungun: Ancestor Can't Find Me, a shell-covered sea creature swims emerges form the Gulf of Mexico and wanders island jungles and shores. The shelled creature we see wandering in this film bears traits of ...
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Set in Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, artist Cauleen Smith reimagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia. Among the scattered assemblages, a group of women whose dynamic, colourful outfits radiate with ener ...
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Personal pilgrimages to three sites of extreme creativity, invention, and generosity: Alice Coltrane's Ashram, Watts Towers, and Watervliet Shaker Community ...
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Three monologues adapted from the groundbreaking book, Black Women in White America, edited by Gerda Lerner. ...
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Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea began as a video designed to be background eye-candy at an outdoor performance event and evolved into a protest against the reverberations of the neo-fascist nonsense percolating in American culture. ...
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Choreographer Taisha Paggett activates a vacant lot in the Washington Park Neighborhood on the southside of Chicago and enjoys an encounter with young resident Maylk Singleton. ...
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Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of Syracuse and Auburn, New York, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies. Crow Requiem connects this history t ...
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H-E-L-L-O translates the famous musical sequence from Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind into a greeting for sites around New Orleans loaded with the histories of music and procession. ...
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A found footage assemblage of epic proportions. Produced on residency at Chicago Film Archives, with music by The Eternals. ...
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A collection of 14 short films that all revolve around Sun Ra and his time in Chicago ...
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"Remote Viewing" is a story in which a man related that, as a boy, he had watched the whites in his town attempt to obliterate every trace of the black community's history by digging a deep hole in which to bury a historical schoolhouse. ...
Watch NowSecond of three films relating to American conceptual Land Art of the 1970's and American histories and traumas. ...
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Sun Ra's anthem Space Is the Place performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band in Chinatown Square, Chicago. Cauleen Smith organised and filmed this energetic flash-mob performance, showing the unsuspecting passers-by who gather to listen. The yo ...
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Science Fiction rumination of post-Katrina New Orleans: space, place and post traumatic stress. Executive produced by Paul Chan and Creativetime. ...
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Entitled, a correspondence with historical still life painters. Super-8 transferred to digital video "Smith has developed a lyrical visual practice, weaving in and out of the independent film world and occasionally gracing the art world with breathtaking ...
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Images and poems responding to the photographs of Malik Sidié. A collaboration with poet, A. Van Jordan. Loops designed for install. ...
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The syntax of cinema collides with string theory and the unchanging sameness of movies, romance, horror, and landscape. ...
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An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission. ...
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A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct. ...
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"Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) is less a depiction of 'reality' than an exploration of the implications of the mediation of Black history by film, television, magazines, and newspapers. Using her alter ego, Kelly Gabron, Smith fabricates a ...
Watch NowDaily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women. Restored by the Academy Film Archive. ...
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Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the 1990s. ...
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Night Sky is the story of two friends' journey through the desert into a synesthetic realm of the senses. After their car breaks down, Cleo and Jay discover a small portal that leads to another dimension where a dance marathon never ends, time collapses, a ...
Watch NowExplores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors. ...
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Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter. She talks about her husband's refusal to touch their son ...
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