Day Is Done

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions

Day Is Done — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 12, 2006
• Runtime
• 169 min
• Director
• Mike Kelley

Day Is Done — Cast

M

Melissa Sills Goth Girl / Shy Satanist / Kiss Groupie Max Shippee Office Vampire

O

Oscar Avalos Horned Man

L

Lecia Doss Consistency / Mary

S

Suzan Averitt Hag Virgin Mary

C

Carole Balkan Matron

H

Holly Beavon May Maenad

M

Marty Laquidara Devil / Barber