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 energy, gather to re-stage an iconic photograph of men taken by Billy May for Life Magazine in 1966. While paying homage to the feminist abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the title refers to the spiritual journey these women embark upon.
Also see Drylongso, Black Utopia LP and compilation programme Calling Planet Earth.
Also in this combined programme
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Paranon
Paranon revolves around the idea of juxtapositioning fundamental elements of sound and image, by manipulating various parameters in shifting canon structures. -
These Silences Are All the Words
Madiha Aijaz’s observational documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Pakistan, contemplates the slow disappearance of the Urdu literary trad -
Maman Maman Maman
A touching and observant portrait of an annual family gathering and the absurd odyssey the grandmother embarks on after her death.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 22'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
