Solange: When I Get Home

Solange: When I Get Home (2019)

In the three years since her seminal album "A Seat at the Table", Solange has broadened her artistic reach, expanding her work to museum installations, unconventional live performances, and striking videos. With her fourth album, "When I Get Home", the singer continues to push her vision forward with an exploration of roots and their lifelong influence. In Solange's case, that's the culturally rich Houston of her childhood. Some will know these references - candy paint, the late legend DJ Screw - via the city's mid-aughts hip-hop explosion, but through Solange's lens, these same touchstones are elevated to high art.

Date of release
2019-07-17
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
41m
Genres
Music
Director
Solange, Alan Ferguson, Jacolby Satterwhite, Terence Nance, Ray Tintori

Casting

Interesting facts

When I Get Home is a 2019 American musical short film directed and edited by singer-songwriter Solange Knowles, who also starred in the film with Adam Jabari Davis and Jessica Figaro. Apart from Knowles', the film features contributions from filmmakers Alan Ferguson, Terence Nance and Ray Tintori, artists Jacolby Satterwhite, with additional contributions from artists Autumn Knight and Robert Pruitt.

Production

In an interaction with writer and art curator Antwaun Sargent, Knowles said that she had an idea on having a film as a visual component to her album, so as to extend her vision to what cannot be articulated sonically and cited a production of The Wiz—a stage musical, she did when she was younger—as a part of her motivation, adding that it was the first time she had a clear vision to emote the parts of herself, that she could not do so, through da…

Her inspiration on working with fellow members in her country helped her forming a renaissance of surreal and experimental work from black artists which reframes and challenges the age-old traditions outsiders associate, calling it as "one of the most exciting things, to be able to connect and hone in with Texas artists and filmmakers who are really shifting the nature of how we’re experiencing these things." She further recalled that, a year-and…

Solange designed the large scale sculptures and sets for the film, for which she described as: "when I think about sculpture and creating sculpture, I'm thinking about the possibility of some young black girl in 20 years, needing to reference a black sculptor who's making work that large, and landscape like that.

While most of the film centered around live-action footage filmed at Texas, the film also had animation components. According to Jacolby Satterwhite, who animated, directed and produced under Knowles' guidance, during September–November 2018, recalled that Knowles had collected hundreds of images and a visual palette to accompany the animation prospects.

For making visuals for the track "Sound of Rain", it was described as a "natural, organic synesthesia" where the sonic templates matches the palette and the lyrics were "defiant, confident and organic" based on their conversations in Los Angeles.

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