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The disco era, long dismissed as a time of hedonistic excess, has been gravely misunderstood. Revisionist historians now argue the era was in fact an important time of protest: liberating gays, blacks ...
The disco era, long dismissed as a time of hedonistic excess, has been gravely misunderstood. Revisionist historians now argue the era was in fact an important time of protest: liberating gays, blacks ...
and women.
The Secret Disco Revolution juxtaposes disco revisionists against revealing new interviews with the era's biggest stars: The Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Kool and the Gang... A goldmine of rarely seen stock footage, and enough disco hits to shake your booty straight back to 1978.
But the film's form is as revolutionary as its content:
This quietly hilarious doc-satire also features an unreliable Nabokovian narrator; "reenactments" that are speculative to the point of complete fantasy; and a unique tone of sustained irony that both presents a fresh look at a well-known era, and compels audiences to question it, without ever allowing them off the dancefloor.
Interview Subjects Include:
Gloria Gaynor - (I Will Survive)
Village People (YMCA, In The Navy)
Robert “Kool” Bell – Kool and the Gang
Harry Wayne “K.C.” Casey – KC and the Sunshine Band
Michael Musto – Columnist, Village Voice
Thelma Houston – (Don’t Leave Me This Way)
Martha Wash – (Two Tons of Fun, It’s Raining Men)
Henri Belolo – Producer/Lyricist, Village People
Tom Moulton – Inventor: Disco Remix, 12" Single
Vince Aletti – Journalist, Rolling Stone, Record World
Alice Echols – Author “Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture”
Peter Shapiro – Author “Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco”
Nicky Siano – DJ, The Gallery, Studio 54
Anita Pointer – Pointer Sisters
Larry Harris – VP, Casablanca Records, Author “And Party Everyday”
Maxine Nightingale – (Right Back Where We Started From)
Evelyn “Champagne” King – (Shame, Love Come Down)
The Trammps – (Disco Inferno)
Marc Benecke – Doorman, Studio 54
Carmen D’Alessio – Publicist, Studio 54
Joanne Horowitz – Publicist, Studio 54
See MoreThe Secret Disco Revolution juxtaposes disco revisionists against revealing new interviews with the era's biggest stars: The Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Kool and the Gang... A goldmine of rarely seen stock footage, and enough disco hits to shake your booty straight back to 1978.
But the film's form is as revolutionary as its content:
This quietly hilarious doc-satire also features an unreliable Nabokovian narrator; "reenactments" that are speculative to the point of complete fantasy; and a unique tone of sustained irony that both presents a fresh look at a well-known era, and compels audiences to question it, without ever allowing them off the dancefloor.
Interview Subjects Include:
Gloria Gaynor - (I Will Survive)
Village People (YMCA, In The Navy)
Robert “Kool” Bell – Kool and the Gang
Harry Wayne “K.C.” Casey – KC and the Sunshine Band
Michael Musto – Columnist, Village Voice
Thelma Houston – (Don’t Leave Me This Way)
Martha Wash – (Two Tons of Fun, It’s Raining Men)
Henri Belolo – Producer/Lyricist, Village People
Tom Moulton – Inventor: Disco Remix, 12" Single
Vince Aletti – Journalist, Rolling Stone, Record World
Alice Echols – Author “Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture”
Peter Shapiro – Author “Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco”
Nicky Siano – DJ, The Gallery, Studio 54
Anita Pointer – Pointer Sisters
Larry Harris – VP, Casablanca Records, Author “And Party Everyday”
Maxine Nightingale – (Right Back Where We Started From)
Evelyn “Champagne” King – (Shame, Love Come Down)
The Trammps – (Disco Inferno)
Marc Benecke – Doorman, Studio 54
Carmen D’Alessio – Publicist, Studio 54
Joanne Horowitz – Publicist, Studio 54
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