#drylongso

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Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

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DRYLONGSO (1998) dir. CAULEEN SMITH

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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.

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Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

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Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

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Drylongso, 1998 (dir. Cauleen Smith)

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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.

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DRYLONGSO:

A brash art student

Photographs of Oakland’s young men

Seeks killer, finds friend

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Drylongso (1998 film by Cauleen Smith)

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Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

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DRYLONGSO (1998) dir. CAULEEN SMITH

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drylongso (1998) dir. cauleen smith

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Drylongso (1999) dir. Cauleen Smith

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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]