Mike Kelley Movies

  • 1999
    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 Plath

    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...

    Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
  • 1990
    Made in Hollywood

    Made in Hollywood

    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...

    Made in Hollywood
  • 1992
    After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence

    After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence

    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...

    After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
  • 1992
    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone

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    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...

    Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
  • 1986
    Kappa

    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...

    Kappa
  • 1989
    Sir Drone

    Sir Drone

    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...

    Sir Drone
  • 1989
    Blind Country

    Blind Country

    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...

    Blind Country
  • 2006
    Day Is Done

    Day Is Done

    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...

    Day Is Done
  • 1995
    Grow Live Monsters

    Grow Live Monsters

    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...

    Grow Live Monsters
  • 1998
    Out O' Actions

    Out O' Actions

    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...

    Out O' Actions
  • 1980
    Garage Sale II

    Garage Sale II

    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...

    Garage Sale II
  • 2001
    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances

    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...

    Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
  • 1986
    Cinderella

    Cinderella

    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...

    Cinderella
  • 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 Graham

    A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham

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    In this video, dancers move about a set designed by Mike Kelley, interacting and silently commenting on various choreographies: Martha Graham’s...

    A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham
  • 2010
    A Voyage of Growth and Discovery

    A Voyage of Growth and Discovery

    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...

    A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
  • 1983
    The Banana Man

    The Banana Man

    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...

    The Banana Man
  • 2011
    Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)

    Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)

    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...

    Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)
  • 2004
    Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)

    Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)

    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,...

    Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)
  • 2011
    Mobile Homestead

    Mobile Homestead

    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...

    Mobile Homestead
  • 2000
    Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)

    Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)

    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...

    Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)