'Glorious doc about pioneering trans composer' The Guardian
réal. Posy Dixon, Grande-Bretagne 2020, 70 min.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland was obsessed with science fiction and living in isolation when she released 'Keyboard Fantasies' in 1986. Recorded in her home studio, the cassette contained seven tracks of curious, hybrid folk-electronica, a sound that was ahead of its time.
Three decades later, the musician - now Glenn Copeland - began receiving emails from people all over the world thanking him for the music they had discovered. Thanks to a Japanese record collector, a re-release of 'Keyboard Fantasies' and name dropping by the likes of Four Tet and Caribou, the music had finally found its audience, two generations on.
In 'Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story', the protagonist brings his life and music to the big screen for the first time - an intimate coming-of-age story that transforms the pain and suffering of prejudice into rhythm, hope and joy.