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Day Is Done, a major new video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, is a feature-length musical. It enunciates a career-long interest in American subcultures and folk events through the re-staging of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering semi-narrative. Each reconstruction is a live-action scene that has been extrapolated from photographs found in high school yearbooks. 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 entirely from an image of a quite standardized folk ritual, Kelley disrupts the traditional structures of such events to construct a dizzying daisy chain of performances that results in an institutional landscape populated by dancing Goths, singing vampires, hick story-tellers, horse dancers, and the Virgin Mary.
Original Release
03/12/2006
Cast
Name | Character |
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Melissa Sills | Goth Girl / Shy Satanist / Kiss Groupie / Goth Girl/Shy Satanist/Kiss Groupie |
Max Shippee | Office Vampire |
Oscar Avalos | Horned Man |
Suzan Averitt | Hag Virgin Mary |
John August Baker | Mule Rider |
Carole Balkan | Matron |
Veronica Batiste | Winnie |
Holly Beavon | May Maenad |
John Boatman | Thick Thug |
Cliff Corder | Beige Office Worker |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Melissa Sills | Goth Girl / Shy Satanist / Kiss Groupie / Goth Girl/Shy Satanist/Kiss Groupie |
Max Shippee | Office Vampire |
Oscar Avalos | Horned Man |
Suzan Averitt | Hag Virgin Mary |
John August Baker | Mule Rider |
Carole Balkan | Matron |
Veronica Batiste | Winnie |
Holly Beavon | May Maenad |
John Boatman | Thick Thug |
Cliff Corder | Beige Office Worker |
Amada Da Ponte | Jewish Woman |
Lecia Doss | Consistency / Mary |
Kate Foley | Modern Dancer |
Ryan Fox | Sick Vampire |
Fiona Fredericks | Saskia |
David Garcia | Business Man |
Brendan Hunt | Thin Thug |
Kyle Ingleman | Motivational Vampire |
Jolieba Jackson | Train Dancer 3 |
Jennifer Beth Lambertus | Hillbilly |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tatiana Bliss | Producer |