© LMFYFF Productions


© LMFYFF Productions


© LMFYFF Productions

THE PERPETRATORS

by Richard SQUIRES
2022 / 4K & Super 16mm / color / sound / 1S / 14' 30

Suburban London, the 1980s. A stranger in the family becomes a ghost child and awakens the monsters and desires of a queer childhood... 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 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.

"Astonishing"
Cahiers du Cinema

4 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION


distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language English
translation French (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 62,00 €

distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language English
translation Portuguese (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 62,00 €

distribution format DCP on server (SMPTE 2K)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language English
rental fee 62,00 €

distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language English
translation Italian (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 62,00 €