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Cauleen Smith: Breaking Cinema
MOUSSE PUBLISHING

A compact introduction to Cauleen Smith’s experimental, imaginative films incorporating science fiction, Afrofuturism and contemporary Chicago culture

Pbk, 6.5 x 4 in. / 96 pgs / 49 color / 49 bw. | 2/11/2025 | Awaiting stock
$22.00



Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

A multimedia portrait of four famed utopian sites celebrating a Black, spiritual America

Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 82 pgs / 125 color / 35 bw. | 10/22/2019 | Not available
$30.00



Cauleen Smith: Breaking CinemaCauleen Smith: Breaking Cinema

Experimental Film 2010–2023

Published by Mousse Publishing.
Text by Romi Crawford.

Since making her first feature while a student at UCLA, Los Angeles–based artist Cauleen Smith (born 1967) has rooted her work firmly within the discourse of mid-20th-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, moving images and science fiction (combined with elements of the more recent Afrofuturist movement), her works offer a phenomenological experience for both its participants and its audience. A portable, introductory volume, Breaking Cinema is a quick yet thorough guide to Smith’s filmmaking. It features stills from a decade of works, including Space Is the Place (her tribute to the Sun Ra Arkestra), Remote Viewing and Lessons in Semaphore. Art historian Romi Crawford, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, elucidates this critical phase of the artist’s career, and how Smith recasts film history in the context of the artistic and cultural ferment of Chicago’s South Side.



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Mousse Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 4 in. / 96 pgs / 49 color / 49 bw.

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Catalog: MID WINTER 2024 p. 24   

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 2/11/2025

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Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave ItCauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It

Published by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Text by Anthony Elms, Rhea Anastas, Cauleen Smith, Rodney McMillian.

Through films, objects, and installation, Chicago-based filmmaker Cauleen Smith (born 1967) offers an emotional axis by which to navigate four distinct universes: Alice Coltrane and her Sai Anantam ashram; a 1966 photo shoot by Bill Ray at Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles; Noah Purifoy and his desert assemblages in Joshua Tree; and black spiritualist Rebecca Cox Jackson and her Shaker community in 19th-century Philadelphia.

These locations, while not technically utopian societies, embody sites of historical speculation and radical generosity between artist and community. In reimagining a future through this mix, Smith casts a world that is black, feminist, spiritual and unabashedly alive.

This volume, wrapped in a frosted and foil-stamped dust jacket, contains full-color photographs of the multi-room installation and provides further insight into Smith's creative process and myriad influences through two interviews and a manifesto written by the artist.



PUBLISHER
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 82 pgs / 125 color / 35 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020

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ISBN 9780884541462 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CAD $45.00 GBP £27.00

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Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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