Speciwomen Focus: This Long Century

Director: Kara Walker, Cauleen Smith, Gauri Gill

2004 / 36min / Digital

“The space of film in the archive is one of investigation, in layers, and in multiplicity. Film mirrors the way that we constructed the nomadic library that is the edited boxset of This Long Century, which Speciwomen is publishing this March. A multilayered and multi-sensorial experience of witnessing, of spending time, and of relating to image and text. Kara Walker, Cauleen Smith, and Gauri Gill are each artists whose practice expands beyond the space of film, yet in film we see them whole, in meditation and in movement. I am glad to be able to present these films in conversation with one another and tie them back to each artist’s practice at large as well as to the form of the boxset we have created with all the artists part of This Long Century Fifty-One.” —Philo Cohen, Founder of Speciwomen

Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale (Kara Walker, 2017, 17')
I Want to See My Skirt (Cauleen Smith, 2006, 18')
Nizamuddin at Night/An Evening Walk (Gauri Gill, 2020, 1')

A conversation between writer and editor Octavia Bürgel and Speciwomen founder Philo Cohen will follow, offering insights into the conceptual and editorial framework of the anthology.