Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Three Short Films by Darol Olu Kae

I Ran from It and Was Still In It

10m

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2021 • United States

Director Darol Olu Kae repurposes materials sourced online and interweaves them with images from his personal archive in an effort to wade through the deep emotions surrounding his father’s death and the sudden relocation of his children. The result is a poignant reflection on inheritance, loss, and separation that explores how an intimate account of one’s life can extend beyond the realm of personal experiences.

Up Next in Three Short Films by Darol Olu Kae

  • Keeping Time
    32:32
    Keeping Time

    Keeping Time

    Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States

    The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...

  • Blur
    20:19
    Blur

    Blur

    Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2025 • United States
    Starring Michael Rowles, Jacqueline Frazier, Kamara McDaniel

    Gloria sits quietly at a bus stop, waiting, when memories from her youth suddenly overtake her thoughts. What unfolds is her dreamlike recollection of Dre, a young man experiencing an in...

×