CinemaOSMovie · 2010 · 1h 25m

How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?

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A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.

Directed byRalph Lemon

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 25m
Language
EN
Released
November 10, 2010

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring

Ralph Lemon

Djédjé Djédjé Gervais

Darrell Jones

Gesel Mason

Okwui Okpokwasili

Okwui Okpokwasili

Omagbitse Omagbemi

David Thomson

Walter & Edna Carter

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Directed by
Ralph Lemon

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