Blind Country
Blind Country
21 minutes
1989
HD
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 of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual, feminine culture with his male, sight-derived power. Following this theme, "Blind Country" begins with animated fruit dancing over Mike Kelley's body and the admonition of "Northerners" to "refill the quickly emptying sack." In the male-dominated land of the North, candy-spurting pinatas stand as phallic symbols. Presumably castrated, and stripped of his authority, Kelley acts the buffoon as he is led through the murky land of the South, a "female," earthy, "realm of the senses" opposing the phallocentric world of the North.
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Stars Mike Kelley, Bob Gibson, Aura Rosenberg, Lolly Lincoln, Amanda Katz
Directors Ericka Beckman, Bruce Fiene, Bruce Darby, Enrique Aguirre, Ericka Beckman
Blind Country
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