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THE PERPETRATORS in Sluice magazine

THE PERPETRATORS is featured in the new autumn/winter issue of Sluice magazine, guest edited by Nothing Pure curator, Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson.

THE PERPETRATORS @ Queer Children’s Film & TV Conference

The Queer Children’s Film & TV conference has been postponed until the New Year.

NOTHING PURE @ IMT Gallery, London

IMT Gallery, London presents NOTHING PURE, an exhibition of works including Richard Squires’ THE PERPETRATORS…

Dangerous, Transgressive, Exciting: An Interview with Queer Filmmaker Richard Squires

Miruna Tiberiu, Gay45, October 2022

THE PERPETRATORS @ Queer Fear Film Festival, North Carolina

THE PERPETRATORS will screen at the Queer Fear Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Review by Pierre Eugène, Cahiers du Cinema, number 800, July-August 2023

“An astonishing short film combining animation and live-action, Richard Squires’ The Perpetrators, with its nocturnal and cavernous atmosphere, parodies the didacticism of the voice-over: it terrorises a teenager struggling with coming out, disturbed by potential queer aggressors in the form of characters from Scooby Doo, designed by society to scare him.”

THE PERPETRATORS @ Edinburgh International Film Festival

THE PERPETRATORS is screening at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.

THE PERPETRATORS @ Animator, Poland

THE PERPETRATORS is screening at Animator Festival, Poznan, Poland in June 2023.

QUEER KID IN THE LANDSCAPE @ VFD, London 21 June, 7pm

VFD and LMFYFF Productions present… QUEER KID IN THE LANDSCAPE: an evening of films exploring queer childhood experience.

THE PERPETRATORS @ Sicilia Queer FilmFest

THE PERPETRATORS is one of ten films competing for the Queer Short prize at Sicilia Queer Film Fest.

THE PERPETRATORS @ Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

THE PERPETRATORS heads to Brazil this summer, screening at Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.

THE PERPETRATORS @ BIAF 2023

THE PERPETRATORS will screen in the Closing Gala at Brighton International Animation Festival on Sunday 16 April at 8pm.

THE PERPETRATORS @ Bendigo Queer Film Festival, Australia

THE PERPETRATORS will screen at the Bendigo Queer Film Festival in Victoria, Australia in March.

THE PERPETRATORS @ BFI FLARE 2023

THE PERPETRATORS will screen at London’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, BFI FLARE, in March 2023.

Let Me Feel Your Finger First archive at Bishopsgate Institute

The LGBTQ+ archives at Bishopsgate Institute, London now hold the archive of the comic art project LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST which ran from 1999 – 2015.

THE PERPETRATORS in competition at LSFF 2023

THE PERPETRATORS will have its UK Premiere competing at London Short Film Festival 2023.

THE PERPETRATORS distributed by Light Cone

THE PERPETRATORS is now available to hire for public screenings from Light Cone.

THE PERPETRATORS debuts at QUEER LISBOA 26

Richard Squires’ new short THE PERPETRATORS will premiere in the Short Film competition at Queer Lisboa 26 in Portugal.

Doozy Deconstructed: Paul Lynde’s voicing of Hanna Barbera’s animated villains

Richard Squires’ article on Doozy has been published in volume 9 of the academic journal Animation Practice, Process and Production alongside articles by Paul Wells, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Sally Pearce, Mary Martin and others. Squires’ article considers how sexuality is coded and performed by animated characters; Hollywood’s legacy of queer-coded villainy; the relationship between the actor’s…

ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM Eps 1-3 streaming worldwide

ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM Episodes 1-3 is now available to stream worldwide.

DOOZY streaming on Glitch

DOOZY is now streaming in Latin America and Scandinavia.

DOOZY streaming worldwide on Vimeo On Demand

DOOZY is now streaming worldwide on Vimeo on Demand.

DOOZY DECONSTRUCTED at APAR symposium

Richard Squires’ paper DOOZY DECONSTRUCTED is part of the upcoming ANIMATION PRACTICE AS RESEARCH online symposium. It will also be published in the accompanying edition of the journal ANIMATION PRACTICE, PROCESS AND PRODUCTION (Intellect Books).

CAMERA OBSCURA Ian White

This text was commissioned to accompany the release of Richard Squires’ film PROGRAMME which premiered at New Work UK at Whitechapel, 2007. Pornography is like silent film. Both share a formal drive that turns action into a demonstration of itself for the sake of entertainment. When a door is opened in a silent film we…

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