Disco, a portrait of Simon Eilbeck (The)
- Director: Alexander Hetherington
- Writer: Catherine Street
The(ir) Blurb...
The Disco is a nonfiction experimental documentary portrait of Queer d/Deaf DJ Simon Eilbeck formed from a collection of 16mm film and location sound recordings encountering members of the queer, trans, alternative and non-binary communities who gather at his monthly disco Hot Mess at The Poetry Club, in Glasgow, Scotland. Encounters include artist and academic Conal McStravick, who responds to the film’s footage alongside their ongoing research on the filmmaker and AIDS activist Stuart Marshall, Trans femme artist Nat Walpole in her studio and interview with Leyre Mann Vadillo, who has attended the disco since its inception. The Disco considers the contingencies, intimacies and tensions of encounter, between filmmaker and subject, recorded at a time of precarity, austerity and crisis but contain illuminations on radical forms of assembly, queer dreaming, hapticality, care and consent; and the infectiousness of joy. The film references Hours for Jerome by Nathaniel Dorsky, Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman and the biography and works of Belgian experimental composer Henri Pousseur.
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