The plot: In 1970’s Australia, on a beach-side cul-de-sac, a
200-ton whale has beached itself. As budding filmmaker Jeff (Atticus Robb) and
his young friends marvel at what has just happened, their parents begin to make
their own lives even more complicated by engaging in a swinger’s party. While
Jeff keeps himself occupied with his home movies and trying to keep on the
right side of the adults in the neighbourhood, he is forced to learn certain
lessons about his home, his culture, his sexuality and his place in the world.
Most people get their friends together to watch movies. Brad
Jones is the guy who gets his friends together to make them, and to his credit,
it usually results in product that is watchable outside of his inner circle.
With as equal a love for the glory days of exploitation cinema as he does all
things 70’s, his homebrew style of filmmaking may not be the most technically
polished stuff around but the real-life comradery between him and those around
him can be reasonably relied on for something fun. And his latest, Disco, is no
exception.
