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Cauleen Smith (born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is best known for her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues facing black women today. Smith is best known for her feature film Drylongso (1998). Smith currently teaches in the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts.
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29 March 1999
A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
10 October 2001
An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent.
01 January 2012
A collection of 14 short films that all revolve around Sun Ra and his time in Chicago
24 January 2001
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Samson (her blind infant son) and to Holly Hunter.
01 July 1992
“Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) is less a depiction of 'reality' than an exploration of the implications of the mediation of Black history by film, television, magazines, and newspapers.
25 January 2019
Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, artist Cauleen Smith reimagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia.
01 May 2003
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
21 November 2011
Night Sky is the story of two friends' journey through the desert into a synesthetic realm of the senses.
08 October 2020
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers.
25 July 2013
A found footage assemblage of epic proportions. Produced on residency at Chicago Film Archives, with music by The Eternals.
07 April 2015
Smith interweaves the figure of the crow through the histories of Syracuse and Auburn, New York, both of which were key stations on the Underground Railroad and innovators in early cinematic and 3D optical technologies.
01 January 2005
The syntax of cinema collides with string theory and the unchanging sameness of movies, romance, horror, and landscape.
01 September 2017
Three monologues adapted from the groundbreaking book, Black Women in White America, edited by Gerda Lerner.
01 January 2011
Second of three films relating to American conceptual Land Art of the 1970's and American histories and traumas.
04 January 2017
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 against the reverberations of the neo-fascist nonsense percolating in American culture.
01 January 2017
Mythical forms embodied in puppetry and cinematic spectacle.
01 January 2008
Science Fiction rumination of post-Katrina New Orleans: space, place and post traumatic stress. Executive produced by Paul Chan and Creativetime.
01 January 1990
Daily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women.
06 March 2015
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 Orleans loaded with the histories of music and procession.
01 January 2011
Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band in Chinatown Square, Chicago.
16 November 2021
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.
23 January 2019
Personal pilgrimages to three sites of extreme creativity, invention, and generosity: Alice Coltraney
01 January 2006
Images and poems responding to the photographs of Malik Sidié. A collaboration with poet, A. Van Jordan.
07 January 2011
"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 black community’s history by digging a deep hole in which to bury a historical schoolhouse.
02 August 2025
Presented as a trilogy for the first time, Cauleen Smith’s The Volcano Manifesto brings together three recent films—My Caldera (2022), Mines to Caves (2023), and The Deep West Assembly (2024)—in a densely woven meditation on geological and cinematic time, on the wild abyss of volcanoes and the womb of mines and caves.
25 September 2024
Short film commissioned by the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Norway
06 February 2016
Part of a multi-platform project highlighted by an hour long documentary about black filmmakers who worked and studied at UCLA between 1965 and the 1990s.
01 January 2008
Entitled, a correspondence with historical still life painters. Super-8 transferred to digital video “Smith has developed a lyrical visual practice, weaving in and out of the independent film world and occasionally gracing the art world with breathtaking film installations that upend traditional forms of narrative filmmaking.
25 May 2019
The word bone translates to yoruba as “bones.” In Egungun: Ancestor Can’t Find Me, a shell-covered sea creature swims emerges form the Gulf of Mexico and wanders island jungles and shores.
01 January 2016
Choreographer Taisha Paggett activates a vacant lot in the Washington Park Neighborhood on the southside of Chicago and enjoys an encounter with young resident Maylk Singleton.
04 November 2022
The imagery of the film is of volcanic scenes in various life stages, from pouring magma to inert mountain, with colors unnaturally saturated – purple, blue, and orange.
