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

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

2010 · 85 min · Documentary, Drama

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 by Ralph Lemon

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