Cauleen Smith Movies

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.

Night 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...

Personal pilgrimages to three sites of extreme creativity, invention, and generosity: Alice Coltrane's Ashram, Watts Towers, and Watervliet Shaker...

Second of three films relating to American conceptual Land Art of the 1970's and American histories and traumas.

Mythical forms embodied in puppetry and cinematic spectacle.

Entitled, a correspondence with historical still life painters. Super-8 transferred to digital video “Smith has developed a lyrical visual...

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

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...

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