Breaking Cinema: Cauleen Smith Experimental Film 20102023 by Romi Crawford

Operating in multiple materials and arenas, interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith (b. 1967) roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, moving images, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. The book Breaking Cinema. Experimental Film 20102023, adds to the growing scholarship on Cauleen Smiths work, as art historian Romi Crawford elucidates a critical phase of the artists career and how Smith recasts film history in the context of the artistic and cultural ferment of Chicagos South Side.