Movies
- 2011
Night Sky
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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...
- 2015
H-E-L-L-O
H-E-L-L-O6.72015HD
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...
- 2003
Sisters in Cinema
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Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
- 2024
The Deep West Assembly
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Short film commissioned by the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Norway
- 2017
Three Songs about Liberation
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Three monologues adapted from the groundbreaking book, Black Women in White America, edited by Gerda Lerner.
- 2020
Cinetracts '20
Cinetracts '2062020HD
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...
- 2001
Women in Film
Women in Film3.52001HD
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...
- 2001
The Changing Same
The Changing Same52001HD
An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.
- 1999
Drylongso
Drylongso5.81999HD
A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
- 2019
Pilgrim
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Personal pilgrimages to three sites of extreme creativity, invention, and generosity: Alice Coltrane's Ashram, Watts Towers, and Watervliet Shaker...
- 1992
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron)
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“Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) is less a depiction of 'reality' than an exploration of the implications of the mediation of...
- 2017
Triangle Trade
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Mythical forms embodied in puppetry and cinematic spectacle.
- 1990
Daily Rains
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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...
- 2013
Lessons in Semaphore
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Choreographer Taisha Paggett activates a vacant lot in the Washington Park Neighborhood on the southside of Chicago and enjoys an encounter with...
- 2012
The Way Out Is The Way Two
The Way Out Is The Way Two02012HD
A collection of 14 short films that all revolve around Sun Ra and his time in Chicago
- 2013
Songs for Earth & Folk
Songs for Earth & Folk02013HD
A found footage assemblage of epic proportions. Produced on residency at Chicago Film Archives, with music by The Eternals.
- 2015
Crow Requiem
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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...
- 2021
Suffolk
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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....
- 2017
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...
- 2011
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...