Darol Olu Kae

Gloria sits quietly at a bus stop at night, waiting. Memories from her youth suddenly flood and take control of her thoughts. A dreamlike, nonlinear narrative unfolds and binds us to “Dre,” a young man experiencing an intense personal crisis. What follows is a brief record of caregiving in the world.

A meditation on what it means to maintain continuity with the past — told through the kaleidoscopic journey of a young drummer who must learn how to guide a multi-generational band into the future after being named their new bandleader.

I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and found footage to offer a more complex portrait of familial loss and separation. Kae wades through deep emotions surrounding the death of his father and the sudden relocation of his children, repurposing intimate family scenes from his personal archive by pairing them with online media from a variety of sources to explore how the autobiographical model can potentially extend beyond the personal.