Released:
2006-03-12

Overview:
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.

Director:
Mike Kelley

Runtime:
2h 49min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Melissa Sills
  as
  Goth Girl / Shy Satanist / Kiss Groupie
• 
  Max Shippee
  as
  Office Vampire
• 
  Oscar Avalos
  as
  Horned Man
• 
  Lecia Doss
  as
  Consistency / Mary
• 
  Suzan Averitt
  as
  Hag Virgin Mary