Cauleen Smith Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    Remote Viewing

    Remote Viewing

    Remote Viewing

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    "Remote Viewing" is a story in which a man related that, as a boy, he had watched the whites in his town attempt to obliterate every trace of the...

    Remote Viewing
  • 2017
    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

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    The word bone translates to yoruba as “bones.” In Egungun: Ancestor Can’t Find Me, a shell-covered sea creature swims emerges form...

    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)
  • 1998
    White Suit

    White Suit

    White Suit

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

    White Suit
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    T Minus Two

    T Minus Two

    T Minus Two

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    The countdown audio footage from the Apollo 11 launch date is heard over a flamed-out, iridescent landscape. Appropriating and reframing the...

    T Minus Two
  • 1970
    The Right Time, Before and After

    The Right Time, Before and After

    The Right Time, Before and After

    01970HD

    A time-lapse documentation of Lee filter film gels installed into the windows of the Dusable Museum of African American History's Roundhouse designed...

    The Right Time, Before and After
  • 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
  • 2005
    The Green Dress

    The Green Dress

    The Green Dress

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    The syntax of cinema collides with string theory and the unchanging sameness of movies, romance, horror, and landscape.

    The Green Dress