Day Is Done: A Film by Mike Kelley DVD
Day Is Done, a feature-length music video by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, is the culmination of his career-long interest in American subcultures and folk events. Thirty-one carnivalesque productions based on photographs found in high school yearbooks have been intermixed into a meandering semi-narrative. Their subjects are the kinds of institutionalized entertainments practiced within the American education system or the work place. These include such familiar diversions from the day-to-day routine as dress-up days, memorial speeches, religious spectacles, fashion shows, singles mixers, and musical follies. The actors have been cast based on their resemblance to the figures in the found photographs, and the sets eerily recreate the original locales: harshly spot-lit stages, bland institutional hallways, meeting rooms, and gymnasiums.
While each chapter of Day Is Done is derived from an image of common folk ritual, Kelley disrupts the traditional structures of such events to construct a dizzying daisy chain of entertainments that results in an institutional landscape populated by dancing Goths, singing vampires, hick story-tellers, horse dancers, and the Virgin Mary.
Originally presented as a 50 channel video/sculpture installation at the Gagosian Gallery New York, in December of 2005, this version of Day is Done has been re-edited into a single channel format for private viewing.
Color/169 minutes
Regular Price: 40.00
Member Price: 36.00
Member Price: 36.00
$40.00 USD
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