Cauleen Smith Movies

  • 2017
    Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron)

    Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron)

    Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron)

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    Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea began as a video designed to be background eye-candy at an outdoor performance event and evolved into a protest...

    Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2019
    Sojourner

    Sojourner

    Sojourner

    02019HD

    Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, artist Cauleen Smith reimagines this unique space as a radical...

    Sojourner
  • 2017
    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

    Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

    02017HD

    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)
  • 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
  • 1998
    White Suit

    White Suit

    White Suit

    01998HD

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

    White Suit
  • 2008
    The Fullness of Time

    The Fullness of Time

    The Fullness of Time

    02008HD

    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

    01970HD

    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

    02005HD

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

    The Green Dress