US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
2012
The Secret Disco Revolution
Friday
May 10, 2013
@
7:00 pm
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2013


Why won’t Disco die? Might it contain hidden depths? Politically correct revisionists are trying to recast disco as a misunderstood culture of protest. Through interviews with Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Kool and the Gang and others, along with a goldmine of stock footage and speculative reenactments, The Secret Disco Revolution presents a comic-ironic investigation into disco and its mysterious longevity.
Disco. Whether you love it or hate it, it was an undeniably massive cultural phenomenon, offering heady dance‐floor escapism — and some priceless polyester outfits. But beneath the reverberating vocals, frenetic strobe lights and four‐on‐the‐floor beat, there was a neon epiphany waiting to emerge. In THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION, director, satirist and comic provocateur Jamie Kastner offers a humorous and insightful investigation into the much-maligned genre, taking up the claim by academic revisionists that disco was in fact a misunderstood culture of protest and a movement of mass liberation for some of American society’s most marginalized citizens: women, African‐Americans, and gay men. Could disco enthusiasts actually have been unwitting foot soldiers in a glittering social revolution?
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