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Synopsis *David Dixon is dead. *is a documentary of past events and of events that have yet to come; hence, it is a fiction, but a fiction built solidly on the real-life public declaration by its maker, David Dixon, which states that after his death his head should be removed from his body and cleaned to the skull, the skull then included in an art piece. The film explores the implications of this declaration, going so far as to kill its maker, opening the film to a fictive future where the filmmaker's father comes to New York City to deal with his son's final dispensation. While in the son's studio (which is located in a converted funeral home) the father gets to know his son's life through watching fragments of documentary video that have been left behind, one of which is Dixon traveling to Oklahoma City to interview the employees of Skulls Unlimited, a family run company that deals in bones. In this documentary fragment the ethics and legalities of Dixon’s proposal are discussed, and Skulls Unlimited is asked if they would be willing to clean Dixon's skull after he dies. Other documentary fragments are of the fabulous NYC wedding of infamous club kid Ladyfag (whom New York Press named "Queen of the Scene") as well as the spectacular musicianship of Argentinean pianist/composer Fernando Otero (winner of the 2010 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album). *David Dixon is dead. *is a meta/hybrid film distinctively structured to capture mortality through artistic effort. |
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