The Perpetrators

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March 27, 2023
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Runtime
14 Minutes
Genre
Animation
Language
English
From LMFYFF Productions

Commenced during lockdown and shot in the neighbourhoods the filmmaker grew up in, The Perpetrators collages moody analogue film, original animation and archival materials in a dreamy autofiction of queer darkness that ponders the correlations between 1980s Stranger Danger, the construction of homosexual identity and the institution of the family.

At a time when political leaders are once again escalating narratives of queer people being a threat to children, Squires’ timely reflection on his own 1980s childhood exposes the history of pathological representations of menacing queers.

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March 18, 2023

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