Carrie Mae Weems Movies
- 2017
The Madding Crowd
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"A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage.
- 2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
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An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976...
- 2012
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art
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In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two...
- 2021
The Shape of Things
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A cyclorama installation where artist Carrie Mae Weems addresses conditions of race in the United States. 'The Shape of Things: A Film in Seven...
- 2013
Holocaust Memorial
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In this performance for camera, Weems creates a ritual dance through the pillars of Peter Eisenmann’s ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of...
- 2017
Cornered
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An installation utilizing two adjoining screens mounted in a corner. On the opposing sides, groups of people protest for and against desegregation...
- 2016
Surveillance
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A short film connecting contemporary state surveillance to histories of Black insurgency.
- 2012
Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me
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Carrie Mae Weems draws on narrative formats such as self-portraiture, social documentary and oral history to scrutinize notions of subjectivity in...
- 2016
People of a Darker Hue
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People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
- 2009
Afro Chic
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Afro-Chic explores the construction of identity through the presentation of several women wearing exaggerated Afro hairstyles and sassy attire as...
- 1970
Italian Dreams
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In one scene in Italian Dreams, we see a close-cropped view of Weems’s face juxtaposed with the visages of two young black women. She caresses...