This one-off virtual VIFF LIVE event is also a worldwide exclusive: right after our one-time-only screening of Keyboard Fantasies, director Posy Dixon will join Canadian composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland for a short conversation which will be followed by an intimate 30-minute performance.
One of the first queer Black classical music students to attend McGill University, Glenn initially made music in relative obscurity. Now a transgender practicing Buddhist, he’s enjoying a late-career renaissance stemming from the rediscovery of his self-released, Atari-generated album Keyboard Fantasies (1986). A younger audience has found and embraced Glenn’s trailblazing fusion of electronic, folk, and classical, and after three decades, he’s earned cult status among the elite of contemporary electronic music. In every frame of Dixon’s bright and generous portrait, there’s a gentle and introspective wisdom that amplifies Glenn’s deep reciprocity with both his audience and his fellow musicians.
Coinciding with the September 25 release of Glenn’s new album, Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, this unique event marks the only time Dixon’s film will be accompanied by a performance.