If This Were Purgatory
Role: Director
Country: UK
Genre: Documentary
Length: 5 minutes 30 seconds
Year: 2024
Producer: Grac Talbot
DOP: Fatosh Olgacher
BFI Flare 2025
BFI Future Film Best Documentary Nominee 2025
London Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest 2024
Wiggin Emerging Film-maker Award 2024
Gossip, identity, politics, and romance. Following a group of friends to a club, this short film documentary 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, ‘If This Were Purgatory’ is a tentative invitation to the fantasy of the London queer club scene. Shot across five queer clubs in London, it poses the queue as a liminal space where queerness is visible and vulnerable to the eyes of the general public. It aims to be a snapshot of what it is like to be queer and to queue.
Funded by The Roundhouse Film Fund 2024