If This Were Purgatory

Documentary

Gossip, identity, politics, and romance. Following a group of friends to a club, this film waits with them, eavesdropping on the voice of a queer club queue. Exploring the idea that queer people, by nature of being marginalised, exist on the borders, this docufiction is a tentative invitation to the fantasy of the London queer club scene. It poses the queue as a liminal space where queerness is visible and vulnerable to the eyes of the general public.

Funded by Ex-Animo. Supported by Wiggin Charitable Foundation and The Roundhouse,

featuring Colour Factory, Dalston Superstore, Electrowerkz, Fold, Pxsxy Palace, Riposte, The Divine.

Director: Honey Birch

Director of photography: Fatosh Olgacher
Sound design by Alice Emerson
Music by Bon Music Vision
Graphic design by Working Conditions
Produced by Grace Talbot
Edited by Honey Birch

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