When I Get Home

To commemorate two years since the release of Solange’s WHEN I GET HOME, Criterion Channel has added a director’s cut of the short film that accompanied the album. Clocking in at just over 40 minutes long, this cut wouldn’t technically qualify as a short under Academy rules… but I’m not in the Academy, so I’m including it here! Experimenting with imagery and style—cowboy/Western, retrofuturism, an animated coliseum populated by dancing digital figurines—Solange feels out the relationships between her hometown of Houston, her past, and her future.  The full film is also available on Apple Music, and you can find excerpts of select songs on YouTube (definitely watch “Things I Imagined / Down with the Clique” and “Binz”).

—Nolan Russell, Executive Assistant