What Is Our Duty To Nostalgia?
A film documenting a process of research and design that responds to the 21st century’s hauntological obsession with the 1970’s and assesses the impact of this in relation to how we define ourselves in the 2020.
Featured Films:
The 1970’s Problem With Race.
Saturday Night Fever undutifully denies the key role of BAME and LGBTQ+ community’s in the development and identity of disco, by white washing and choosing a macho-cis-white-male protagonist. This film goes through a detailed head count of one of the club scenes commencing at 12 minutes 25 seconds to highlight the issues with race both in the fictional context of the film and in the real world relating to Nick Cohn’s article that influenced it all - Tribal Rights Of The New Saturday Night.
Tony’s Hairdryer.
A detailed enquiry into how Tony’s General Electric SuperPro 1200W Hairdryer politically impacts him, a cis-white-male in the 1970’s.
How Much Does Tony Earn?
Extrapolating data from Saturday Night Fever, Nick Cohn’s article and historic economic sources to rationally approximate the political and economic standings of a working-class male in the 1970’s with Tony’s lifestyle.
Nostalgia//Mania.
Backing up memories after the Époque to the global hard-drive, or symptom of a deeper rooted socio-cultural issue?
A critical reflection on the faux-nostalgic longing of youthful dreamers and the silent over-tones often forgotten when anemoically longing for the past.