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A meta-documentary about the life and afterlife of Linus Herrell — a gay Clevelander who helped awaken his city to the AIDS crisis, died in 1990 at 38, and whose ashes were recently rediscovered at a BDSM retreat in rural Pennsylvania.

Un méta-documentaire sur la vie et l'au-delà de Linus Herrell — un gay de Cleveland qui a contribué à éveiller sa ville à la crise du SIDA, décédé en 1990 à 38 ans, et dont les cendres ont été récemment retrouvées dans une retraite BDSM en Pennsylvanie rurale.

Creative Team
Équipe créative
Carson Parish Arts administrator, educator, and filmmaker based in New York. Uses 16mm film to tell stories about queer history, kink communities, and the AIDS epidemic. Films shown at Newfest, Ann Arbor Film Fest, Xposed Queer Film Fest (Berlin), and Anthology Film Archives. Fellow, 2024 EFA Project Space SHIFT Residency. NYFA and Puffin Foundation grants. Produces film exhibitions for MoMA; teaches at SVA.
DirectorRéalisateur
Dale Peck Author, critic, and journalist based in New York. Books include Hatchet Jobs, The Law of Enclosures, Drift House, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Sprout. Writes for The New Republic; teaches at the New School. Guggenheim Fellow, 1994.
WriterScénariste
Jonah Wheeler Theater orchestrator, music director, and adult performer based in New York. Previously musical director for Sweeney Todd. His cabaret show Bleak! has toured nationally for three years. Over a million followers across X, Instagram, and TikTok.
Lead ActorActeur principal
Derek Howard Director of photography, director, and producer. Shot The Tuba Thieves, Bitterbrush, and the Oscar-nominated The ABCs of Book Banning. Longtime collaborator of director Victor Kossakovsky. Based between New York, Berlin, and Tbilisi.
CinematographerChef opérateur
Nick Tyson
ProducerProducteur