Movies: Leslie Cuyjet

In Paris in 1928 American Djuna Barnes writes a farcical novel about the lovers, friends and publishing elite that make up "lesbian Don Juan" Natalie Clifford Barney's sordid salon. Dolly Wilde, Elizabeth Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Mimi Franchetti, Col...

In her work, Brooklyn-based dance artist, choreographer, writer, researcher, and filmmaker, Leslie Cuyjet candidly “aims to conjure life-long questions of identity, confuse and disrupt traditional narratives, and demonstrate the angsty, explosive, se...

A seriocomical short film on the life insurance industry and its direct connection to slavery. For All Your Life unpacks the ways in which human beings grapple with the inevitable prospect of death and, more importantly, the ways in which lives—espec...