David Dixon is dead.
'David Dixon is dead.' is a documentary of past events and of events that have yet to come. Therefore, 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 NYC to deal with his son’s final dispensation. While in the son’s studio, 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 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 nightlife celeb, Ladyfag (named “Queen of the Scene” by NY Press), as well as the spectacular musicianship of Grammy winning composer Fernando Otero. 'David Dixon is dead.' is a film about mortality that is anything but morose; rather, its vigorous 'meta/hybrid' structure alone affirms, if there is no longer life after death, at least there is life left in cinema.