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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 Jay Villemarette and his employees at Skulls Unlimited. 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. Despite knowing his son’s ideas contradict to his own Christian beliefs, the father lovingly fulfills the son’s wishes by returning to Oklahoma, Dixon’s head now in a cooler. Other documentary fragments in the film are of the NYC wedding of infamous club kids Ladyfag and Rainblo, as well as the spectacular musicianship of Argentinean pianist/composer Fernando Otero. |
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