This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual, feminine culture with his male, sight-derived power. Following this theme, "Blind Country" begins with animated fruit dancing over Mike Kelley's body and the admonition of "Northerners" to "refill the quickly emptying sack." In the male-dominated land of the North, candy-spurting pinatas stand as phallic symbols. Presumably castrated, and stripped of his authority, Kelley acts the buffoon as he is led through the murky land of the South, a "female," earthy, "realm of the senses" opposing the phallocentric world of the North.
Ericka Beckman
Director
Mike Kelley
Bob Gibson
Aura Rosenberg
Lolly Lincoln
Amanda Katz
Ian Bearce
Kim Keown
Lori Desantis
Ladies First60%
The Tramp65%
Desperate Living63%
Caveman66%
Arctic Dogs60%
Sorry to Bother You67%
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story69%
Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure59%
Slumberland72%
In the Lost Lands63%
Kermit's Swamp Years58%
Big Trouble in Little China72%
10 Lives76%
The Geisha Boy63%
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny67%
Meet the Feebles63%
The Willoughbys70%
Beetlejuice73%
Help!68%
Red Hot Riding Hood72%
