Cleopatra at the Mall | Short

Cleopatra at The Mall (2024) reflects on the rediscovery of Black and Native American sculptor Edmonia Lewis’s monumental marble The Death of Cleopatra (1876). Born in 1844 in Greenbush, New York, Lewis moved to Europe in 1865 and settled in Rome in 1866, where she executed her extraordinary neoclassical sculpture. Although it had been exhibited in Philadelphia in 1876 and Chicago in 1878 to great acclaim, when Lewis died in London in 1907, The Death of Cleopatra was considered lost. In 1988 art historian Marilyn Richardson located the sculpture at a strip mall in Illinois; since 1994 it has been housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, DC, near the National Mall.

World Premiere: The Met Exhibition ‘Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now’

ROLE: Producer

Cleopatra at the Mall a film by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Starring: Ruth Negga
Featuring: Peter McRobbie, Leonard Bakerman

Director and Writer: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Producer: Ditte Ravnild
Co-Producer: Varya Rootwood
Executive Producer: Mishka Brown
Director of Photography: Alex Ashe
Production Designer: Nora Mendis
Editor: Nicole Otero
Costume Designer: Pamela Shepard
Casting: Emily Rucker
First Assistant Director: Giselle García Castro

First Assistant Camera: Marcus Odom
Second Assistant Camera and Loader: Gabriel Contreras
Steadicam: Lizardo Reyes Jr.
Still Photographer: Derin Çelik
Gaffer: Ariel Nehorayoff
Best Electric: Jarrod Kloiber
Key Grip: Keve Huggins
Best Grip: Fidelis Onyia
Production Sound Mixer: Javier Caso
Art Director: Hans Mahawaral
Art Department Assistants: Elijah Nurse and Emile Domise
Sculptor: Zaq Landsberg
Graphic Designer: Nabila Wirakusumah
Picture cars provided by: Chris O'Rourke / Union Sparks LLC
Supervising Location Manager: Christopher Britton
Tailor: Maureen Chevalier
Hairstylist: Ikeyia Powell
Makeup Artist: Damaris Santana
Production Coordinator: Yuki Maekawa-Ledbetter
Set Production Assistants: Charlotte Olver, Quan Robinson, and Calvin Theobalds
Assistant to Ruth Negga: Anthony Hull
Key Grip, Washington DC Unit: Michael Wilson
Production Assistants, Washington DC Unit: Paolo De Guzman
Legal Services provided by First Gen Law
Production Counsel: Anuj Gupta and Rebecca Neipris

Assistant Editor: Hailey Choi
Post Services provided by Company 3
Colorist: Andrew Geary
Color Assist: Diego Orkiz
Finishing Producer: Krystle Annand
Associate Producer: Anthony Romaguera
Account Executive: Jim Gardner
Sound Design: Nicole Otero
Sound Mix: Calvin Pia
Audio Post: Felt Sound
Music Supervisor: Ben Dorenfeld
Main Titles and Credits Designer: Vivian Zhang
Visual Effects Artist: Chris Memoli
Subtitles provided by Prism Language Solutions

Special Thanks:
Marilyn Richardson
Smithsonian American Art Museum
SAG-AFTRA
Simone Leigh
Support provided by the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts
Kodak
Sophie Luo
Mike S. Ryan

Camera provided by Wexner Center for the Arts and Hand Held Films
Lenses provided by Du-All Camera
Grip & Lighting equipment provided by Brooklyn Lighting & Grip
Props provided by State Supply Equipment and Props
Production services provided by SPM Global
Film provided by Kodak
Insurance provided by Wrapbook
Catering provided by Chef Pearl Cooking Studio
Travel services provided by Altour