The Disco, 16mm, 2020–2025
R&D materials, 16mm camera and film tests, November 11 2023
R&D materials, 16mm camera and film tests, January 27 2024
Original film shoot, Simon, in Available Light, March 2020, b/w reversal, silent, 3mins
New material and phantom words scene, 16mm, 2024
35mm colour stills, Luke Fowler, September 2024
50mm lens, Mark Vernon’s studio, Oct 2024
THE DISCO
A portrait of Simon Eilbeck
A film by Alex Hetherington
16mm colour and black & white, sound, 2024
© Alexander Films MMXXIV
Thank you:
Simon Eilbeck, Colin O’Hara, Luke Fowler, Catherine Street, James Ginzburg, Conal McStravick, Nat Walpole, Leyre Mann Vadillo, Mark Vernon, Benjamin Owen, Neil Simpson, David Toop, Harry Ritchie, Lyndsay Mann, Lydia Beilby, Jim Lambie, Wendy Kirkup, Sasha Staicu, David Upton at LUX Scotland, Karen Cunningham, Hannan Jones, Ishan Clemenco, Calum Sutherland, Daniel Hughes, James Ley, Ross Whyte, GF Ramsay and Karen Kelly, on portrait Luke Fowler, Sarah Neely/Urth Productions/Screen Scotland, Ute Aurand and Scott Baxter, all at The Poetry Club/SWG3, all at CCA, and Offline, Glasgow, all at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Saeed Taji Farouky and the cohort of Bridging the Gap 21/Scottish Documentary Institute. And those who wish to remain anonymous on verbal histories of queer discos like Daisy’s, Aberdeen, Fire Island, Edinburgh, Nightingale, Birmingham, QueerUpNorth, Jason Okundaye and Larry Blagg Archives among others
Thank you to Kodak, Digital Orchard, Gauge Film and James Holcombe
Funded by Open Project Creative Scotland and supported by CCA, Glasgow
THE DISCO
Music by David Toop, Luke Fowler
Sound edit mix and mastering, James Ginzburg with Luke Fowler
Sound recording, (Studio) Mark Vernon
Sound recording, (Tarot, Queens Park) Benjamin Owen
Sound recording, (Nov) Luke Fowler
Sound assistant, (Tarot, QP, Sept, Oct, Nov) Harry Ritchie
Second camera, Arri (September) Luke Fowler
Voice over: Text written and performed by Catherine Street; Extract from Simon Eilbeck’s essay LET’S GO SWIMMING: One man’s reflections on being gay and bisexual read by Simon Eilbeck
Main cameras, Bolex and Scoopic Alex Hetherington
Edited by Alex Hetherington
Color grade by Daniel Hughes
Colour stock processed by Kodak London, scan by Digital Orchard
Black and white stock processed and scanned by Gauge Film and James Holcombe
Filmed on location Glasgow, 2023–2024, Edinburgh 2020 (black and white HD reversal)