Carole Balkan

The stories of four lovers are intertwined in this gritty and emotionally heartfelt ensemble film.

Dans les années 70, Barbi est femme au foyer qui s’ennuie affreusement. Abandonnée par son mari, Barbi est influencée par sa voisine, celle-ci s’exprime sur la libération des femmes et incite Barbi à se débarrasser de son soutien-gorge et à sortir en ville. A partir de là, la vie de Barbi bascule.

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.