Despite being highly intelligent beings, crows have a bad reputation among humans, who consider them a nuisance and systematically ostracise them. Finding echoes in the treatment of people of colour, Cauleen Smith pays homage to this species, a particular population of which she discovered migrates between Auburn and Syracuse – the birthplace of stereoscopic photography.
Also in this combined programme
-
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. -
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. -
Lessons in Semaphore
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2015
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
