Movies
- 1990
Made in Hollywood
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Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...
- 1992
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
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Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever...
- 1999
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
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In Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath an actor portrays Superman and does exactly what the title...
- 1986
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...
- 1998
Out O' Actions
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Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...
- 1992
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone01992HD
A 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...
- 1995
Grow Live Monsters
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Grow 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...
- 1989
Sir Drone
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Three 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...
- 2006
Day Is Done
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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...
- 1999
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 Graham01999HD
In this video, dancers move about a set designed by Mike Kelley, interacting and silently commenting on various choreographies: Martha Graham’s...
- 1986
Cinderella
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“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...
- 1989
Blind Country
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This 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...
- 1983
The Banana Man
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"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...
- 2001
Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
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Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four...
- 2010
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
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Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's feature-length video A Voyage of Growth and Discovery follows the existential journey of Baby IKKI over several days...
- 1980
Garage Sale II
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Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...
- 2011
Mobile Homestead
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Mobile 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...
- 2011
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)
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Continuing his series restaging photographs of “extracurricular activities” found in high school yearbooks and newspapers, Vice Anglais...
- 2004
Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)
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Legend Trip, a teenager’s story about exploring a haunted site at night, reconstitutes a childhood memory of Mike Kelley’s. It retraces,...
- 2000
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)
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"Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)" 2000, 29:44 min, b&w, sound Kelley has constructed a half-hour drama...