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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.

Director: Ralph Lemon

Cast

Ralph Lemon Ralph Lemon
Djédjé Djédjé Gervais Djédjé Djédjé Gervais
Darrell Jones Darrell Jones
Gesel Mason Gesel Mason
Okwui Okpokwasili Okwui Okpokwasili
Omagbitse Omagbemi Omagbitse Omagbemi
David Thomson David Thomson
Walter & Edna Carter Walter & Edna Carter