#drylongso

[roseillith]

DRYLONGSO (1998) dir. CAULEEN SMITH

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2024: [22/52] Drylongso, dir. Cauleen Smith (USA, 1998)

I’m taking pictures of Black men because they’re becoming an endangered species.

[artfilmfan]

Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

[herheadinfilmspodcast]

Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

[oldfilmsflicker]

Drylongso, 1998 (dir. Cauleen Smith)

[peachviz]

Drylongso (1998)

college student photographer, Pica takes pictures of the black men living in Oakland after instances of the men around her dying. Wanting to preserve their existence, she is thrown into the path of Tobi. A friendship is born amongst the pain around them.

[randomrichards]

DRYLONGSO:

A brash art student

Photographs of Oakland’s young men

Seeks killer, finds friend

[directedbywomen]

I always appreciate listening to women directors talk about their creative processes. These days I'm making a conscious effort to take time to seek out and enjoy these kinds of conversations. Here's a wonderful dialogue between independent filmmaker Cauleen Smith and Jacqueline Stewart about Smith's film Drylongso, which has recently been restored. I hope that means more people get a chance to see the film. I'm looking forward to revisiting the film now that it is in a state closer to what Smith was aiming for in the first place.

Learn more and also watch her Vogel Lecture here: https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/watch-cauleen-smiths-amos-vogel-lecture-at-nyff60/

[myblackgirlmagicsyllabus]

Drylongso (1998 film by Cauleen Smith)

[film-book]

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[roseillith]

DRYLONGSO (1998) dir. CAULEEN SMITH

[blackinmotionpictures]

drylongso (1998) dir. cauleen smith

[pyritetears]

Cauleen Smith, Drylongso

[oldfilmsflicker]

For this month's Female Filmmakers in Focus column at RogerEbert.com I spoke to Cauleen Smith about the making of her 1998 film DRYLONGSO (recently restored by @janusfilms​), the way the craft of Black women directors goes ignored, and more. 

Cauleen talks about how her filmmaking craft, along with other Black women directors working in independent film in the 90s like Ayoka Chenzira, Zeinabu irene Davis, and Lesley Harris was often ignored, and how it's still happening today.

[READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE]

[lesbiancolumbo]

ive been wanting to watch more films created by/starring women ive already started a list but do you have any favorite recomendations any genre

well for starters here's lists totaling over 2,000 films directed by women that you can peruse through right now

my favorite films directed by women are, in chronological order, shoes (1916), merrily we go to hell, cleo from 5 to 7, le bonheur, wanda, a new leaf, the heartbreak kid, jeanne dielman, mikey and nicky, not a pretty picture, i am wanda, a question of silence, illusions, losing ground, children of a lesser god, the piano, antonia's line, the watermelon woman, gasman, compensation, but i'm a cheerleader, the gleaners and i, la cienaga, fat girl, morvern callar, little miss sunshine, after the wedding, wendy and lucy, fish tank, pariah, the loneliest planet, your sister's sister, obvious child, cameraperson, certain women, faces places, lady bird, portrait of a lady on fire, the assistant, clemency, and i'm your man

a couple of films by women that i saw recently and really loved were totém, a thousand and one, days of happiness, alma's rainbow, drylongso, birth/rebirth, chocolat, next sohee, and four daughters.

i honestly want to recommend one film directed by a man but starring women and that's westward the women which FUCKING ROCKS.