Day Is Done
Directed by Mike Kelley
Overview
Day Is Done is a carnivalesque opus, a genre-smashing epic in which vampires, dancing goths, hillbillies, mimes and demons come together in a kind of subversive musical theater/variety revue. Running over two-and-a-half hours, this riotous theatrical spectacle unfolds as a series of episodes that form a loose, fractured narrative. The video comprises parts 2 through 32 of Kelley's multi-faceted project Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions, in which trauma, abuse and repressed memory are refracted through personal and mass-cultural experience. The source material is a series of high school yearbook photographs of "extracurricular activities," specifically those that represent what Kelley has termed "socially accepted rituals of deviance." Kelley then stages video narratives around these found images.
Cast
Melissa Sills
Goth Girl / Shy Satanist / Kiss Groupie
Max Shippee
Office Vampire
Oscar Avalos
Horned Man
Lecia Doss
Consistency / Mary
Suzan Averitt
Hag Virgin Mary
Carole Balkan
Matron
Holly Beavon
May Maenad
Marty Laquidara
Devil / Barber
Sebastien Hope
Boy / Angel Boy 2
Ryan Malloy
Catholic Woman
Amanda Da Ponte
Jewish Woman
Nelson Serrano
Jewish Man