Kappa
Kappa
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Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...
Mike Kelley
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Made in Hollywood
Made in Hollywood7/101990HDSteeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...
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Cinderella
Cinderella8/101986HD“CINDERELLA is a musical treatment of the fairy tale. I have broken apart the story and set it as a mechanical game with a series of...
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Sir Drone
Sir Drone6.3/101989HDThree teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this feature length film by renowned artist...
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Blind Country
Blind Country6/101989HDThis collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country...
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Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath0/101999HDIn Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath an actor portrays Superman and does exactly what the title...
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After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence0/101992HDSince the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever...
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Out O' Actions
Out O' Actions0/101998HDOut O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...
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The Banana Man
The Banana Man0/101983HD"This is my only truly solo video project. The tape is an exploration of character and was done in direct reaction to my performance work at the...
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A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery0/102010HDMike Kelley and Michael Smith's feature-length video A Voyage of Growth and Discovery follows the existential journey of Baby IKKI over several days...
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Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)0/102011HDContinuing his series restaging photographs of “extracurricular activities” found in high school yearbooks and newspapers, Vice Anglais...
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Day Is Done
Day Is Done0/102006HDDay 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...
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Mobile Homestead
Mobile Homestead0/102011HDMobile Homestead is a public artwork by Mike Kelley consisting of a full-scale replica of his childhood home in the Detroit suburb of Westland, built...
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Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)
Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)0/102004HDLegend Trip, a teenager’s story about exploring a haunted site at night, reconstitutes a childhood memory of Mike Kelley’s. It retraces,...
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A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham
A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham0/101999HDIn this video, dancers move about a set designed by Mike Kelley, interacting and silently commenting on various choreographies: Martha Graham’s...
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Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
Heidi’s Four Basket Dances0/102001HDFollowing the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four...
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Garage Sale II
Garage Sale II0/101980HDFeaturing performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...
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Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone0/101992HDA collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size...
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Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)0/102000HD"Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)" 2000, 29:44 min, b&w, sound Kelley has constructed a half-hour drama...
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Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)0/101987HDExperimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...
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Grow Live Monsters
Grow Live Monsters0/101995HDGrow Live Monsters is a selection of 8mm, super-8, and 16 mm film phantasies from the period 1971-76. While still at high school Cary Loren started a...
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The Broken Rule
The Broken Rule0/101979HD“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can...
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Fresh Acconci
Fresh Acconci0/101995HDArtists McCarthy and Kelley re-stage classic 1970s performance pieces by Vito Acconci, with a decidedly ironic Southern California sensibility....
