Director
Jamie Kastner
Year
2012
Run Time
84
min
Country
Canada
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
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.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
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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