About
LUCA is an independent production company based in London.
Our work – from documentary features & series to music videos & experimental arts projects – endeavours to add to conversations and open up new avenues of thought.
Keyboard Fantasies is currently being distributed by Greenwich Entertainment in the USA and Modern Films in the UK and Ireland.
Director’s Statement
I first heard the record Keyboard Fantasies in 2017. Like many others I quickly became obsessed, and wanted to find the person behind the mesmerising record.
After a long, fruitless search for Beverly online, I found my way to Glenn delivering a lecture at Red Bull Music Academy Montreal. Watching him mimic the unique dancing styles of his ancestors to a room of enraptured hungover twenty-year-olds, I wanted to know more.
A year of lively Skype calls followed as Glenn and I explored how we might work together. Glenn had written Keyboard Fantasies alone, looping takes from his Roland TR-707, so had never played the music live. Initially he was reticent to revisit the music of his past, yet as time went on and more and more young people started getting in touch, he changed tack and formed an ensemble of artists - Indigo Rising - with whom to share his music with the world.
A few months later – after receiving a chance cancellation fee from a commercial job – I got on a plane to Nova Scotia to meet with Glenn, and see if I could find the makings of a film. Spending a week with Glenn confirmed my suspicions that his was a story that needed to be told. Glenn has a profoundly enlightened understanding of the bigger constructs we allow to rule our lives – gender, time, space, identity – wisdom learned through the challenges he has faced in the past. To hear such timely sentiments coming from a radiant 74 year-old (an “elder”, as he calls himself), is both a comfort and an inspiration.
The music of Keyboard Fantasies has already touched record collectors around the world, and I hope that this film can now travel in a similar manner, bringing a little hope, joy and solace to those whom encounter it.