Cauleen Smith
Filmography
Cauleen Smith at IFFR
Black Utopia LP
80'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
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 photography.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
Drylongso
With her Polaroid camera, art academy student Pica snaps the African-American men in her neighbourhood, before they meet a violent death.
82'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
Lessons in Semaphore
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Pilgrim
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA.
11'
USA
IFFR 2019
Sojourner
Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, artist Cauleen Smith re-imagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia.
22'
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019
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 ‘arkestral’ arrangement.
USA
IFFR 2019
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.
10'
USA
IFFR 2019