Festival Forum: Images Festival 2021
I ran from it and was still in it
Darol Olu Kae
2020
11 Minutes
USA
Festival Forum
Date
May 29–June 11, 2021
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Darol Olu Kae’s I ran from it and was still in it (2020), presented as part of our special feature of Images Festival 2021, and among the six films picked by the festival programmers for e-flux audiences.
A poetic meditation on familial loss and separation, and the love that endures against dispersion. Kae repurposes materials sourced online and pairs them with images from his personal archive in an effort to wade through the deep emotions surrounding his father’s death and the sudden relocation of his children, collapsing time and memory in the process. Taking the autobiographical model as his jumping-off point, Kae explores how an intimate account of one’s life can potentially extend beyond the personal.
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This special feature of Images Festival 2021 presents films by Rossella Biscotti, Grau, Darol Olu Kae, Nour Ouayda, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Rina B. Tsou, screening on e-flux Video & Film for two weeks from Saturday, May 29 through Friday, June 11; as well as a conversation with festival programmers Alia Ayman, Robert Lee, and Yasmin Nurming-Por moderated by e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis. Watch them here.
The program is part of the series Festival Forum on e-flux Video & Film, presenting collaborations with established and emerging moving-image festivals from around the world.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.