Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival

Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story

Expired September 30, 2020 4:59 AM
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This program includes KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN-COPLAND STORY (dir. Posy Dixon) preceded by NAOMI REPLANSKY AT 100 (dir. Megan Rossman).


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***CLOSED CAPTION: Please note KEYBOARD FANTASIES has closed captioning which you need to manually turn on. Click on the “CC” icon on the video player for closed captioning to appear on screen.***

KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN COPELAND STORY envelops you in a hug from the first shot; a hug filled with music, stories of the past and present, and experiences of loneliness, perseverance, radical love and importantly, rhythm. As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time. Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line. KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND STORY tells the time-traveling tale of this mystical musician and vocalist, as the present finally catches up with him and he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74. Capturing five decades of relentless musical output and shifting manifestations of gender and sexual identity, set against a backdrop of profound social change, the film celebrates the unpredictable rhythms of life; a lullaby to soothe those souls struggling to find their place in the world.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    62 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    UK
  • Premiere
    Chicago Premiere
  • Director
    Posy Dixon
  • Cast
    Beverly Glenn-Copeland