Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions
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.
Mike Kelley
Writer, Director
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
Project Almanac67%
I Can Only Imagine 283%
Project X69%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
This Is Spinal Tap74%
Take Me Home Tonight60%
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires70%
Happy Death Day66%
One Mile: Chapter One70%
Central Intelligence64%
Metal Lords68%
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S72%
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 372%
House Party64%
New York Minute61%
Moonage Daydream74%
I Can Only Imagine75%
Power Ballad69%
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues62%
Driver's Ed66%
