So pleased that THE DEEP WEST ASSEMBLY is a part of 2024 #nyff62! @thenyff This film lived as a monster in my head for years. But several attempts (included in the final) never felt complete. We managed to literally stitch it together between May and June of this year. I am leaving it all on the floor🤗🪩 Co-produced by @astrupfearnleymuseet, creatively produced by @marimunro🎇 , and graphic effects produced by @marsudac 📺, cinematography by @haley_minyoung_kreofsky (and me but you will easily register Haley’s gorgeous work), costume design by @pr3ciousliljem , and super resourceful prop design by @sallyblu_ 🎬🎥🎞️📼📹🟩🟢🧩 Starring the luminous and fiercely intelligent actor @iamdionneaudain 🎈❤️ Ancestral presence brought to you by @khalifboyd 🕺🏽🌍🎭🩵 With appearances from artists @thereal.aliciapiller and @vickiearavindhan 🖌️📌📚👁️ Sound by #jameo Mixed @esschicago, colored by Andrew Francis 👂🏾🦻🏾🎧 Music by The Art Ensemble of Chicago (thank you Mr. Mitchell!)🎼🎵🎶🎺🥁🎹🎷🪈 Thank you St Louis Art Museum, for the tiffs 📷 and bg research. Special thank you to the DASL Crew #michaelagyin @mervinpobryant #marcbowman And @nyeishaprince, Director of DASL🔥🧏🏾‍♀️🧏🏿‍♂️🧏🏽🎀🗝️🙏🏾 This list is incomplete. I send love and thanks to all, ALL the shepherds. 💗💓 The Deep West Assembly🏜️ Cauleen Smith, 2024, U.S., 35m World Premiere: 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. #thedeepwestassembly #experimentalfilm #laurels 🫶🏾