Enigmatic and subversive, Playland combines archival imagery, historical audio clips, and stylized vignettes to tell the story of what was Boston’s longest-surviving LGBTQIA+ venue and bring performers and partygoers from the 20th century out to play for one last night.
This post was written by Kylee Peña and originally appeared on Adobe blog on Jun. 9, 2023.
To produce “Playland”, Director and Co-Editor Georden West and Producer and Co-Editor Russell Sheaffer relied on Adobe Creative Cloud apps including Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Photoshop, and InDesign to push the creative process to the limit.
Described by Variety as a “haunting and haunted collage of queer history,” the film leaps across decades, as the cast enact a journey starting in the 1940s, through the heydays of the 1960s and ’70s, to decline and closure in the 1990s. Playland echoes the filmmakers’ love for fashion, queer aesthetics, and the films of Derek Jarman, Sally Potter, and Barbara Hammer. In it, nothing stands still, and everything feels fragile and transient.
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