Cauleen Smith

6.9 MovieH-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...

H-E-L-L-O

2015

6.1 MovieA young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

Drylongso

1999

4.8 MovieThree 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...

Women in Film

2001

9.5 Movie“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,...

Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)

1992

5.0 MovieAn Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.

The Changing Same

2001

8.0 MovieSmith 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...

Crow Requiem

2015

6.0 MovieA global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own...

Cinetracts '20

2020

10.0 MoviePresented 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...

The Volcano Manifesto

2025

MovieNight Sky is the story of two friends' journey through the desert into a synesthetic realm of the senses. After their car breaks down, Cleo and Jay discover a small...

Night Sky

2011

MovieEntitled, a correspondence with historical still life painters. Super-8 transferred to digital video “Smith has developed a lyrical visual practice, weaving in and...

Entitled

2008

MovieThe 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...

Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me)

2019

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

The Right Time, Before and After

MovieThree monologues adapted from the groundbreaking book, Black Women in White America, edited by Gerda Lerner.

Three Songs about Liberation

2017

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

The Way Out Is The Way Two

2012

MovieSine 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...

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

2017

MovieThe 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...

My Caldera

2022

Movie"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...

Remote Viewing

2011

MovieBack 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. The resulting film,...

Suffolk

2021