Incorporating slide images that also appear in her performance Black Utopia LP, Cauleen Smith creates an ‘arkestral’ arrangement of chairs where visitors can sit and dictate the projection of slides. The homely decor consists of living plants and a rainbow mural – in honour of Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows.
Also in this combined programme
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Non-chronological History
The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors. -
Landscape Series #1
A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation. -
Sedimentation of Memory
This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history. -
Her Luminous Distance
This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations. -
A Man Called Love
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorshi -
Recollections of Long Lost Memories
A present-day hippy finds his way into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history in this humorous slide installation. -
Between a Gaze and a Gesture
With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain. -
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
- Premiere status
- None
