Movies: Mike Kelley

“THE BROKEN RULE is my reaction to the American education system, where learning blocks must be acquired by the group before any individual can progress to the next level. My film pictures learning blocks as relay races conducted by male players, whe...

Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four dances with just an apparently innocent basket as a prop....

"Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)" 2000, 29:44 min, b&w, sound Kelley has constructed a half-hour drama inspired by a photo found in a high school yearbook. The original, a still from a school play, depicts two ...

Legend Trip, a teenager’s story about exploring a haunted site at night, reconstitutes a childhood memory of Mike Kelley’s. It retraces, step by step (initiation – completion – retrospection), an invocation of Satan and a divination using the melted ...