Playland

synopsis

The ghosts of barflies' past haunt Playland, "a transdisciplinary work of queer bricolage" by filmmaker Georden West. The film takes place inside the empty husk of the Playland Café, Boston's oldest and most notorious gay hangout space. The cafe shut down in the late ‘90s, but West stages one last bawdy night on the town for the generations of drag queens, disco DJs, leatherdykes, and sissies who made Playland their home, creating an atemporal zone where queer ancestors can come out to play.