Liz Roberts

Making its world premiere at the Wex, Kahn’s allegorical short film No Go Backs follows teens who renounce the bleak world they're set to inherit to seek a brave new way forward. As Kahn notes in the gallery guide for exhibition: "I wanted to make a film that was quietly polemic. Exhausted by word streams each day in the scroll of news and comments, all of us wrestling with position and rhetoric amidst what is the never-ending real violence of life in late capitalism, I wanted us to have a break…While this new generation carries a special weight—the earth’s own ticking clock and a sweeping global rise in fascism not seen before—history hands down tools. Backpacks half full, savvy, and 'born under a bad sky,' the kids will reconfigure the house we’ve left them."

Image: Liz Roberts, photo: Heather Taylor