Day Is Done

Day Is Done

169 mins | March 12, 2006

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.

Day Is Done

169 mins | March 12, 2006

Day Is Done
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.
Producers
Original title Day Is Done
Directors Mike Kelley
Writers Mike Kelley

Cast

Melissa Sills

as Goth Girl/Shy Satanist/Kiss Groupie

Max Shippee

as Office Vampire

Oscar Avalos

as Horned Man

Suzan Averitt

as Hag Virgin Mary

Carole Balkan

as Matron

Holly Beavon

as May Maenad

Ryan Fox

as Sick Vampire

Brendan Hunt

as Thin Thug

Kyle Ingleman

as Motivational Vampire

Derek Loughran

as Mime 1

Dink O'Neal

as Joaquin

Tom Patrick

as Heartthrob Vampire

Nancy Sandercock

as Chicken Dancer 1

Chris Shearer

as Wizard

Terry Shusta

as Nerd

Don Yanan

as Plaid Office Worker

Mike Kelley

as Narrator