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Co-Presented with Creative Time 8:00 PM, Tuesday, July 1 The New York Premier of Cauleen Smith’s The Fullness of Time followed by a conversation with the artist and Paul Chan.

Filmmaker Cauleen Smith is best known for Afro-futurist cinematic works that weave intimate narratives of love, yearning, and the dream-world with known histories, imagined landscapes, and broader cultural symbols to activate collective memory.

In The Fullness of Time Smith repurposes the languages of physicists and astronomers to decode the rage and grief, elation and hope that surround the contemporary reality of New Orleans. A “sister from another planet” is sent to earth to explore the terrain and learn our ways. As she wanders the streets of the post-Katrina city, the viewer is left to wonder if this solitary character is indeed an alien, or perhaps just one more person trying to make sense of the passage of time, the enormity of loss, and the new landscapes of New Orleans. The Fullness of Time was shot on location in New Orleans in collaboration with Kalamu Ya Salaam and STUDENTS AT THE CENTER, and was part of Creative Time and Paul Chan’s recent project Waiting for Godot in New Orleans.

Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.