Solange Knowles’ Remastered Director's Cut of ‘When I Get Home’ now available on the Criterion Channel
Making its Exclusive Streaming Premiere today on the Criterion Channel is Solange Knowles’ Remastered Director's Cut of ‘When I Get Home.’
When I Get Home finds multidisciplinary artist Solange Knowles’s deeply introspective vision of a spiritual expedition reckoning with the question “Where is home?” Accompanying her acclaimed 2019 album of the same name, the film taps imagery of her hometown’s (Houston, TX) culture with flights of surrealism spotlighting Black cowboys, space, futurist worlds, and ritualistic movements that characterize evolution as a recurring presence. Solange explores concepts of origin, fear, safety, and reclamation through the power of ancestral roots and the creation of one’s own kaleidoscopic universe. Presented here in Solange’s director’s cut, When I Get Home is a dazzling immersion into the imagination of an artist whose vision knows no bounds.
Over the course of the past 5 years, Solange has explored the process of world-making- embarking on a creative and visual journey through various artistic mediums and performance art shows across the globe. These shows include her performances at the Sydney Opera House (2020), 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2019), Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2019), Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Germany (2019), Guggenheim Museum, NYC (2017), and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (2017). This also extends to her exhibited multi-media installations at London’s Tate Modern as well as the interdisciplinary video and dance performance piece, Metatronia, which featured Metatron’s Cube, 2018; a sculpture conceptualized and created by Solange, which premiered at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
