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My name is Cauleen Smith and

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the film that I have in this

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exhibit is called Pilgrim.

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Pilgrim is a film

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that was made from lots of

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16 millimeter, mostly film that I

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took while I was visiting different

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sites where utopias happened.

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But the core, the heart of the film

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was actually filmed beautifully

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in 4K by my friend, Arthur

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Jafa, A.J.

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And it centers around the

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ashram and mandir that

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once stood in

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Calabasas, California, where Alice

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Coltrane or Swamini Turiya

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shared her teachings in music.

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So the film Pilgrim begins

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just with this image of

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this organ that's encased in

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acrylic and dust, the sunlight

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shooting through the dust as it kind

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of falls around it.

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Couldn't access it or play it,

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and it was a revered object.

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It's so interesting, one of the

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first records that really got me

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enthralled by her is called Eternity

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and on that song, I don't know the

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title of the song, but chanted

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over and over again is "California."

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It seems to be a message

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that she's sending and receiving

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about having to go west

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to California, and I was really

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intrigued with that.

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I loved these world-building

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musicians who don't just do music

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but they are placemakers and

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have ensembles of people

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with them thinking the same

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thing they think or thinking with

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them about ideas.

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When the purpose of your music is so

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large that it has to be enacted

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through place and

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with other people.

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It can't just be you writing or

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composing.

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It has to enacted by lots

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of other people, lots of people have

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to contribute.

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I love that idea.