
Cauleen Smith
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 25, 1967
- Birthplace
- Riverside, California, USA
Cauleen Smith (born September 25, 1967) is an American born filmmaker and multimedia artist. She is best known for her experimental works that address the African-American identity, specifically the issues facing black women today. Smith is best known for her feature film Drylongso (1998). Smith currently teaches in the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts.
Filmography

Mines to Caves TBA
Director
- T Minus Two
T Minus Two TBA
Director

The Right Time, Before and After TBA
Director

Only Now 2025
Director

The Volcano Manifesto 2025
Director

The Deep West Assembly 2024
Director

My Caldera 2022
Director

Suffolk 2021
Director

Cinetracts '20 2020
Director

Egungun (Ancestor Can't Find Me) 2019
Director

Sojourner 2019
Director

Pilgrim 2019
Director of Photography, Director

Three Songs about Liberation 2017
Producer, Director

Sine at the Canyon Sine at the Sea (by Kelly Gabron) 2017
Director

Triangle Trade 2017
Director

Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA 2016
as Herself

Lessons in Semaphore 2016
Director

Crow Requiem 2015
Director, Cinematography, Writer, Production Design, Sound, Editor

H-E-L-L-O 2015
Director

Songs for Earth & Folk 2013
Director

The Way Out Is The Way Two 2012
Director

Night Sky 2011
as Judge

Remote Viewing 2011
Director

Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band 2011
Director, Producer
- The Grid
The Grid 2011
Director

The Fullness of Time 2008
Director

Entitled 2008
Director

I WANT TO SEE MY SKIRT 2006
Director

The Green Dress 2005
Director
- Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema 2003
as Self

The Changing Same 2001
Director, Writer

Women in Film 2001
as Woman Prisoner

Drylongso 1999
Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Foley, ADR Recordist, Dialogue Editor, Sound Effects
- White Suit
White Suit 1998
Director

Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) 1992
Director
- Daily Rains
Daily Rains 1990
Director
Credits from TMDB.