Day Is Done

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.

Cast

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

Ryan Malloy

Catholic Woman