Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron
Male and female voice-overs clash in telling the biographical story of an artist: one speaks in a monotone through media-defined stereotypes, while the other speaks in a playful, defiantly personal, way. The film returns to the same cycle of images and scrolling texts to reveal that a person’s story can depend on who is telling it.
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Pilgrim
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA. -
H-E-L-L-O
Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians. -
Three Songs About Liberation
Reading as a radical act. Cauleen Smith stages three readings of excerpts from Gerda Lerner’s book Black Women in White America. -
Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band
A flash-mob performance of Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place, performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band. -
Lessons in Semaphore
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore. -
Crow Requiem
Smith brings together the forced migration of birds, the treatment of people of colour and Syracuse’s connection to the birth of stereoscopic ph
Film details
- Productieland
- USA
- Jaar
- 1992
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2019
- Lengte
- 8'
- Medium/Formaat
- 16mm
