Cauleen Smith Movies

  • 2011
    Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

    Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

    Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band

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    Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band in Chinatown Square, Chicago. Cauleen Smith organised...

    Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band
  • 2006
    I WANT TO SEE MY SKIRT

    I WANT TO SEE MY SKIRT

    I WANT TO SEE MY SKIRT

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    Images and poems responding to the photographs of Malik Sidié. A collaboration with poet, A. Van Jordan. Loops designed for install.

    I WANT TO SEE MY SKIRT
  • 2013
    Lessons in Semaphore

    Lessons in Semaphore

    Lessons in Semaphore

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    Choreographer Taisha Paggett activates a vacant lot in the Washington Park Neighborhood on the southside of Chicago and enjoys an encounter with...

    Lessons in Semaphore
  • 2008
    Entitled

    Entitled

    Entitled

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    Entitled, a correspondence with historical still life painters. Super-8 transferred to digital video “Smith has developed a lyrical visual...

    Entitled
  • 1992
    Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)

    Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)

    Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)

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    “Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) is less a depiction of 'reality' than an exploration of the implications of the mediation of...

    Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)
  • 2017
    Triangle Trade

    Triangle Trade

    Triangle Trade

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    Mythical forms embodied in puppetry and cinematic spectacle.

    Triangle Trade
  • 2011
    The Grid

    The Grid

    The Grid

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    Second of three films relating to American conceptual Land Art of the 1970's and American histories and traumas.

    The Grid
  • 2021
    Suffolk

    Suffolk

    Suffolk

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    Back in 2018 I invited an intergenerational group of women to help me make some moving-images in Noah Purifoy’s Desert Museum in Joshua Tree....

    Suffolk
  • 2012
    The Way Out Is The Way Two

    The Way Out Is The Way Two

    The Way Out Is The Way Two

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    A collection of 14 short films that all revolve around Sun Ra and his time in Chicago

    The Way Out Is The Way Two
  • 2015
    H-E-L-L-O

    H-E-L-L-O

    H-E-L-L-O

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    H-E-L-L-O translates the famous musical sequence from Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind into a greeting for sites around New...

    H-E-L-L-O
  • 1998
    White Suit

    White Suit

    White Suit

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    A lyrical visual poem on movement, time, and wandering.

    White Suit
  • 2008
    The Fullness of Time

    The Fullness of Time

    The Fullness of Time

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    Science Fiction rumination of post-Katrina New Orleans: space, place and post traumatic stress. Executive produced by Paul Chan and Creativetime.

    The Fullness of Time