Day Is Done (2006)

Day Is Done is a carnivalesque opus a genresmashing epic in which vampires dancing Goths hillbillies mimes and demons come together in a kind of subversive musical theatervariety revue Running over twoandahalf 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 Kelleys multifaceted project Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions in which trauma abuse and repressed memory are refracted through personal and masscultural 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