How does The Secret Disco Revolution compare to some of your other works, like the controversial “Kike Like Me”?
How does The Secret Disco Revolution compare to some of your other works, like the controversial “Kike Like Me”?
Isn’t it just fun to be able to say that title? I still wince. I still shock myself because I used to have to say it all the time. This film was a departure for me stylistically and in various ways. But first of all, I’ve appeared on camera in my previous four films to varying degrees. “Kike Like Me” was the most truly personal and “Disco” is the most layered, and both of those things were challenging. Not that it’s easy to appear on camera. For a documentary, it has its pros and cons - the pros would be that it makes the film your journey and that’s a useful narrative tool. And also it instills a tone of irony. For instance, your kind of an audience surrogate when you’re on camera...the downside is trying to do a film. Typically, my films are ironic in tone. I've discovered it’s harder to do a film with irony in it without that narrative device of yourself as a character in the film, because your own voice is not in it to mediate what’s going on. So you have to find different ways of doing it.
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Isn’t it just fun to be able to say that title? I still wince. I still shock myself because I used to have to say it all the time. This film was a departure for me stylistically and in various ways. But first of all, I’ve appeared on camera in my previous four films to varying degrees. “Kike Like Me” was the most truly personal and “Disco” is the most layered, and both of those things were challenging. Not that it’s easy to appear on camera. For a documentary, it has its pros and cons - the pros would be that it makes the film your journey and that’s a useful narrative tool. And also it instills a tone of irony. For instance, your kind of an audience surrogate when you’re on camera...the downside is trying to do a film. Typically, my films are ironic in tone. I've discovered it’s harder to do a film with irony in it without that narrative device of yourself as a character in the film, because your own voice is not in it to mediate what’s going on. So you have to find different ways of doing it.
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