https://vielmetter.com/events/stanya-kahn-no-go-backs Vielmetter Los Angeles and the Wexner Center for the Arts are excited to co-present a limited online screening of Stanya Kahn’s most recent short film, No Go Backs (2020). Available for viewing for one week, the 16mm film is a timely vision of a world on the edge of collapse and the young people set to inherit it. Because the film’s current exhibition at the Wexner Center and its opening at Vielmetter Los Angeles are both on hold due to the global pandemic, Kahn wanted to offer the film for a preview viewing for everyone sheltering in place. The film will be streaming on the gallery's website from May 8 – May 15. A live conversation on Zoom with Wexner Associate Curator of Exhibitions Lucy I. Zimmerman and Curator of the Film/Video Studio Jennifer Lange will be hosted by the Wexner Center and take place on Wednesday, May 13 at 4 PM PDT, RSVP is required. A 33-minute short, shot on super 16mm with an original soundscore and no dialogue, No Go Backs follows two teenagers (and real-life friends) who leave the city for the wild, only haphazardly prepared. From the heart of the city, they cut an arduous path along sites of California’s historic water wars, traveling north into the monumental landscapes of the Eastern Sierra. In the haunted precarity of a collapsed world, the kids travel in dreamlike states of distraction, malaise, and resilience. As they eventually encounter other kids along shared roads and the prospect of camaraderie in facing the unknown, the film becomes a compressed, allegorical epic about an entire generation that must make a new way forward.