Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music

New York's hottest club is Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music. This club has everything: countercultural history, off-the-wall interpretations of America's most recognizable tunes, ping pong warfare, giant inflatable penises making love and war to David Bowie's "Heroes," shameless gay melodrama, and of course, MacArthur Fellowship winner Taylor Mac. This riotous concert film documents the New York theater legend's joyous, challenging, and ostentatiously queer 24-hour musical performance as this glittered ringmaster guides an enthralled audience through a transformative cycle of birth, death, and national rebirth. Featuring virtuoso musicians, innovative costumes, and the deconstruction of the American myth told through sailors’ ditties, disco, and sugary pop alike, Mac's cathartic celebration, captured in gorgeous detail by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, is not to be missed. (Tribeca Film Festival)