When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they are trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter, Abby, just home from her first year of college. I Used to Be Darker is a story of people finding each other and letting each other go; of looking for love where they have found it before; and, when that does not work, figuring out where they might find it next.

(Berlin 2013, Sundance 2013)

FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!

NED OLDHAM (actor, musician) formed the art-punk band Languid and Flaccid with Slint-to-be members Brian McMahon and Britt Walford in 1981. Since then he has performed and recorded with an amazing cast of musicians including David Grubbs, Jason Lowenstein, Mick Turner, Jim White, David Heumann, Matt Sweeney, and his two younger brothers, Paul and Will “Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy” Oldham. In 1994, he formed The Anomoanon with Aram Stith, Jack Carneal and Willy Maclean, and over more than a dozen releases explored psychedelic folk rock territory to critical acclaim in the US and abroad.

JACK CARNEAL (actor, musician) is a writer, teacher and musician living in Baltimore with his family. He began playing drums in Richmond’s nascent punk and new wave scene in the late seventies while still in middle school. In the early nineties he formed a band with Ned Oldham and friends that became the Anomoanon. After a stint living in rural Mali, Carneal began a non-profit label called Yaala Yaala Records, focusing exclusively on the music of rural Mali. All profits are funneled back to the musicians. Jack’s writing has recently appeared in McSweeney’s Lucky Peach magazine and in the online arts journal Bluepenny Quarterly. He is a Lecturer in English at Towson University.