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# “Powerful and timely” LGBTQ+ film ‘The Perpetrators’ to show at BFI Flare this month
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/powerful-and-timely-lgbtq-film-the-perpetrators-to-show-at-bfi-flare-this-month/
- Published: 2023-03-02T12:30:14.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-02T10:28:44.000Z
- Description: 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.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, BFI, BFI Flare, LGBT, LGBTQ, queer

**LMFYFF Productions** presents “powerful and timely film” ***The Perpetrators*** at **BFI Flare** on **March 19** and **March 25**.

Commenced during lockdown and shot in the neighbourhoods the filmmaker **Richard Squires** 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.

A release explains: “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.”

*The Perpetrators* received its premiere at Portugal’s **Queer Lisboa Festival** and is directed by London-based visual artist and academic Richard Squires, following his feature length documentary on queer identity *Doozy* (2018) and hybrid documentary *Programme* (2007), which premiered at London’s **Whitechapel Gallery**. Animation is provided by **Elroy Simmons** (*Doozy*, 2018; *Mansfield* *66/67*, 2017; *Horrid Henry*, 2015).

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