Cauleen Smith Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A found footage assemblage of epic proportions. Produced on residency at Chicago Film Archives, with music by The Eternals.

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

Mythical forms embodied in puppetry and cinematic spectacle.

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...

The imagery of the film is of volcanic scenes in various life stages, from pouring magma to inert mountain, with colors unnaturally saturated –...

Daily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women. Restored by the Academy...