{"id":17926,"date":"2025-09-22T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17926"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:05:18","slug":"cauleen-smith-volcano-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17926","title":{"rendered":"Cauleen Smith volcano shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cauleen Smith came to town to open an art exhibit and screen two nights of shorts programs &#8211; I made it to one of those.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Songs for Earth and Folk<\/em> (2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Subtitle conversation between EARTH and FOLK<br \/>\nSoundtrack by The Eternals, aka Damon Locks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Sine at the Canyon, Sine at the Sea<\/em> (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Racism and outer space<br \/>\nSeems tragic that letterboxd just lists &#8220;Cast: Richard Spencer&#8221;<br \/>\nLearned: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/kellygabron\">Kelly Gabron<\/a> = Cauleen Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Triangle Trade<\/em> (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volcano and puppets<br \/>\nCollaborators include J\u00e9r\u00f4me Havre, a Toronto sculptor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camilleturner.com\/\">Camille Turner<\/a>.<br \/>\nMusic by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justinhicksmusic\/volcano-manifesto\">Justin Hicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>My Caldera<\/em> (2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part one of <em>The Volcano Manifesto<\/em> (this + <em>Mines<\/em> + <em>Deep West<\/em>).  <em>Volcano Manifesto<\/em> is also the title of an actual manifesto, released as a <a href=\"https:\/\/fmagazine.myshopify.com\/products\/cauleen-smith-volcano-manifesto\">chapbook<\/a> at an <a href=\"https:\/\/moranmorangallery.com\/exhibition\/my-caldera\/\">art exhibit<\/a>, which was also titled <em>My Caldera<\/em>, and featured the handmade banners people were holding in <em>Deep West<\/em>.  Metal soundtrack by Salvadore &#038; Diego Rafael Rivera.  &#8220;Cameraless print&#8221; process, awesome.  Per the notes: &#8220;The scratchy, chaotic aesthetic is created through Smith&#8217;s proprietary process of placing TikTok video stills onto 35mm film then rendering it in 4k as an artifact of the original footage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Mines to Caves<\/em> (2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Geology \/ wild animals<br \/>\nThis one&#8217;s also an <a href=\"https:\/\/aspenartmuseum.org\/exhibition\/cauleen-smith-mines-to-caves\/\">installation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>All The Money<\/em> (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photographs \/ fire<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WK3NHEgJIUM\">Music video<\/a> for a Moor Mother song from her insane album <a href=\"https:\/\/moormother.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-great-bailout-deluxe\">The Great Bailout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Deep West Assembly<\/em> (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to understand the world through extraction&#8221;<br \/>\npopulations irrupt \/ volcanoes erupt<br \/>\nCloses with a sign-language interpretation of a Nina Simone <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Nina-simone-22nd-century-lyrics\">song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cauleen7.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nsee also:<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15632\">Last Things<\/a><\/em> (Deborah Stratman, rocks)<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14275\">Rock Bottom Riser<\/a><\/em> (Fern Silva, volcanoes)<\/p>\n<p>from Cauleen&#8217;s essay &#8220;The Association for the Advancement of Cinematic Creative Maladjustment&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Maladjusteds liberate image from narrative. Narrative is the oppressor of the Moving-Image &#8230; the Moving-Image can and must do more than slave for narrative. The Moving-Image must rise up and reclaim the power it has for so long surrendered to story.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Maladjusteds project their love of the Spectator onto the screens.  The Maladjusteds resist corporate pressure to fuel the desires of the Spectator. Rather they seek to excavate her needs.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Maladjusted Spectator does not expect to be pleased. She expects to be respected &#8230; When she watches a Moving-Image, she revels in the freedom of being responsible for her heart and mind, while trusting the filmmaker to expand and enliven both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cauleen Smith came to town to open an art exhibit and screen two nights of shorts programs &#8211; I made it to one of those. Songs for Earth and Folk (2013) Subtitle conversation between EARTH and FOLK Soundtrack by The Eternals, aka Damon Locks &#8211; Sine at the Canyon, Sine at the Sea (2016) Racism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,3436,3107,402,926,21,2359,1382],"class_list":["post-17926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-cauleen-smith","tag-geology","tag-puppets","tag-racism","tag-shorts","tag-sign-language","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17926\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}