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) is a documentary, drama film directed by Ralph Lemon.

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.

Cast

Ralph Lemon

Djédjé Djédjé Gervais

Darrell Jones

Gesel Mason

Okwui Okpokwasili

Omagbitse Omagbemi

David Thomson

Walter & Edna Carter