Blind Country

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by HG Wells called The Country of the Blindabout a man who travels to a country of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual feminine culture with his male sightderived power Following this theme Blind Country begins with animated fruit dancing over Mike Kelleys body and the admonition of Northerners to refill the quickly emptying sack In the maledominated land of the North candyspurting 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