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Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

Cauleen Smith | USA | 2011 | 10' |

| IFFR 2019

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 young men and women let nothing, not even rain, bring the performance to a halt.

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Crow Requiem

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Three Songs About Liberation

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Lessons in Semaphore

A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore.
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Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians.
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