2024 | United States | Short

The Deep West Assembly

  • English, American Sign Language - 35 mins
  • Director | Cauleen Smith
  • Writer | Cauleen Smith
  • Producer | Mariko Munro, Cauleen Smith

STATUS: Completed

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America’s violent history of settler colonial extraction and enslavement is posited against the expansive lens of geologic time in The Deep West Assembly. Commingling theater and computer animation, textiles and dance, Black and Indigenous cultural traditions, Cauleen Smith locates an anti-racist methodology for the end of the world in the spaces underground, where the interior of the Earth becomes a place of possibility and new ways of relating.

America Violent history Settler colonialism Extraction Enslavement
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