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Michael Lee Richardson & Garry McLaughlin, 'We Were Always Here'

1 — 31 July 2023

Michael Lee Richardson & Garry McLaughlin, 'We Were Always Here', 2020. Courtesy of the artists.

A disco ball hangs in stasis, slowly falling, as everyone dances, coming into their own. Drawing on critical theory on the concept of ​‘queer time’ and queer temporality, the film takes place in a working men’s club where, as we move through space, time begins to bend until the space becomes something else entirely.

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Michael Lee Richardson

Michael Lee Richardson (any pronoun) is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow. Michael’s short film, My Loneliness is Killing Me – directed by Tim Courtney – won a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2018. It has been shown on BBC Scotland, and at film festivals around the world. Michael’s most recent short, Who I Am Now, debuted at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022. As a director, Michael is currently in post-production on Just Jackie, a bubblegum pop tale about gender identity, friendship and acceptance. Michael has film and television projects in development with a range of production companies, including their first feature film, A Good Spell, with Bombito Productions. Outside of filmmaking, Michael likes witches, 80s makeover montages and going to the shops.

Garry McLaughlin

Garry McLaughlin (he/​him) is a PhD Researcher with the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies at University of Dundee with co-supervision at University of St. Andrews. A practising theorist, visual artist and writer, his academic research is focused on queer temporality and chronotopia in comics and graphic novels. This practice-based study involves the creation of a comic book, PRAXIS, in which he explores cross-temporal storytelling, critical engagement and liberatory consciousness via a post-structural, posthuman critique of Marvel’s X‑Men books, in an exploration of the unique temporal mechanics of comics systems. He is also working on several other comics and a prose novel.

Image description: Three dancers pose together mid-movement, their heads together in the centre of the frame surrounded by arms, lit in a bright pink light.

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