Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith is a polymath artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her film Drylongso follows a woman in a photography class who begins taking pictures of Black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

Films


Drylongso

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(1998)

Pica (Toby Smith), a woman in a photography class in Oakland, begins photographing the young Black men of her neighborhood, having witnessed so many of them fall victim to senseless murder and fearing the possibility of their becoming extinct altogether.