KEYBOARD FANTASIES

By Posy DIXON

LUCA PRODUCTIONS LTD - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a transgender, septuagenarian musical genius finally finds his place in the world. Part biopic, part tour documentary, Keyboard Fantasies tells the mystical tale of cult musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland. 

Festivals
& Awards

Doc'n Roll 2019
Official Selection
CPH:DOX 2020
SOUND & VISION
Hot Docs 2020
WINNER: Audience Award Mid-Length Documentary
Biografilm 2020
Art & Music
TIGLIFF 2020
Official Selection
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2020
Nominated: Mermaid Award
BFI Flare 2020
Minds
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, LGBT, First film
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 71 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Posy DIXON
    • Producer(s)
    • Liv PROCTOR (LUCA Productions Ltd)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 sees the protagonist commit his life and music to screen for the first time - an intimate coming of age story spinning pain and the suffering of prejudice into rhythm, hope and joy.
      Half aural-visual history, half DIY tour-video, the film provides a vehicle for our newly appointed queer elder to connect with youth across the globe. A timely lullaby to soothe those souls struggling to make sense of the world.