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Elegance Bratton on New House Music Documentary ‘Move Ya Body,’ and Why Disco Demolition Reminds Him of Today’s ‘MAGA Maelstrom’: ‘Partying Is Political’
Elegance Bratton talks about documentary “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” and thriller "By Any Means," with Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
Bratton, who first broke through with documentary “Pier Kids” and drama “ The Inspection,” and was selected as one of Variety ’s 10 Directors to Watch in 2023, has a personal connection to house music because of how it empowered him as a gay teenager. You are watching, supposedly, the majority of Americans turn their backs on the idea of equal justice and civil rights and embrace a notion of … I mean, it’s like book burning. Next up for Bratton is the production of “By Any Means,” based on a story that he says is “really close to my heart.” “In the 1960s, a man by the name of Vernon Dahmer was paying poll taxes so that Black folks in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, could vote the Ku Klux Klan out of power.
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