Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
Combined Programme
IFFR 2019
From Sun Ra to Alice Coltrane, music guides the world of Cauleen Smith that draws freely from local US histories, outer space and speculative (science) fictions.
See also Sojourner, Drylongso and Black Utopia LP.
Combined Programme
IFFR 2019
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
Smith brings together the forced migration of birds, the treatment of people of colour and Syracuse’s connection to the birth of stereoscopic photography.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
A flash-mob performance of Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place, performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019
Reading as a radical act. Cauleen Smith stages three readings of excerpts from Gerda Lerner’s book Black Women in White America.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
Pays tribute to Charlotte Pryce and Cauleen Smith, and presents two Artist Talks: by Andrew Norman Wilson and Diana Vidrascu.
Read more about this programmeSpeaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
What is pure cinema? Henri Chomette’s answer to this question is a seminal investigation into the nature of film.
5'
France
IFFR 2019
The mystery of insect flight explored. Interpretations of a mythological and fantastical nature are illuminated in motion and time.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019