Director, writer, and editor Daral Olu Kae’s new short film, “I Ran From It and Was Still In It,” was featured in this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Sundance Short Review: ‘I Ran From It and Was Still In It’ by Daral Olu Kae
“I Ran From It and Was Still In It” is personal to the director. Daral Olu Kae was the primary caregiver for his father for a decade and recently lost him suddenly. Over the time spent with his father, their relationship grew stronger, and Olu Kae started to compare the relationship with his father to the one he has with his children. This film voices the pain of a young black man and how it follows him into manhood and articulates the perspective of black men and fatherhood. It shows the remarkable bond that a black man has with his child.
I could feel the love a father has for his children through the film and I could also feel Olu Kae’s pain of losing someone so close that you feel like you’re at your end.
Olu Kae is known for mixing genres like narrative, documentary, and experimental together to create his films. When watching “I Ran From It and Was Still In It,” you have to open your mind to experience something different from what you may have seen before. I commend Daral Olu Kae for sharing with audiences the story of great black fathers. Sundance Short Review: ‘I Ran From It and Was Still In It’ by Daral Olu Kae
For other reviews visit: https://www.thenewcurrent.co.uk/darol-olu-ka
DAROL OLU KAE
Darol Olu Kae is an artist from Los Angeles. His collaborative, research-based approach to filmmaking is inspired by community histories; it explores themes like filiation and inheritance. His work blurs boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, challenging the medium to express the complexity of Black life and culture. He is currently in pre-production on his next project, Keeping Time, and he is developing his debut narrative feature, Without a Song.
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