Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith at IFFR

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  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

  • Deep Focus Short
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  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.

  • Deep Focus Short
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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.

  • Deep Focus Short
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  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.

  • Deep Focus Short
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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.

  • Deep Focus Short
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  Sojourner

  Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, artist Cauleen Smith re-imagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia.

  • Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
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  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.

  • Deep Focus Short
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  Black Utopia LP

  A constellation of sounds, images and histories from research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora is brought together in this slide-pro

  • Blackout
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  Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity

  A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestr

  • Blackout
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  Drylongso

  With her Polaroid camera, art academy student Pica snaps the African-American men in her neighbourhood, before they meet a violent death.

  • Regained