Dennis Day

Neurotics Anonymous

Co-presented with the Inside/Out Festival
May 18 - June 4, 2005

"Opting Out"

Over the past twenty years Dennis Day and GB Jones (see Troublemakers) have consistently explored queer identity from the perspectives of pop and punk respectively. From growing up gay in Newfoundland to Toronto's underground queercore scene their work has deliberately inhabited the critical margins, opting out of the treadmills of consumer culture and mainstream gay lifestyle.

Neurotics Anonymous is a satirical look at a society obsessed with labelling and treating so-called mental disorders even when various cures are often more problematic than the initial disorder.

No lifestyle is spared in these four tidy vignettes, which speculate that attaining mental health and well-being is perhaps just a stepping stone to a more profound level of despair.

2005 (12 min. Betacam SP)