AFTER HOURS

After Hours: A subversive celebration of feminist & queer nightlife, co-presented by T A P E Collective & Invisible Women. To party is political - it’s time to reclaim the night!

Nightlife has historically provided liberation and escape for subcultures and marginalised communities, but today many of our nightclubs and DIY venues are at risk disappearing altogether in the face of gentrification and soaring costs.

After Hours, co-curated by T A P E and Invisible Women, brings together archive and contemporary film to explore the connections between urban space, music and activism through feminist and queer lenses.

Turn up the bass and join us on an immersive journey, from the dance bars of 1960s Soho to the warehouse raves of the 1990s, via the sound systems of South London and two sets of nightclub toilets.

To party is political - it’s time to reclaim the night

  • A series of vignettes from the toilets of a Glasgow club, a place where women go to chat, commiserate and connect over the course of a raucous night out.

Mirror Mirror

  • In 1960s London, a multi-racial crowd drink and dance together framed by swirling cigarette smoke. A series of silent outtakes shot by pioneering filmmaker Joan Littlewood.

Fun Palace: Nightclub (Outtakes)

  • A young Asian woman walks through the streets of Glasgow, once the second largest city of the British empire, countering those colonial echoes through dance and music - a new culture of resistance.

Bhangra Jig

  • A frenetic window into the 1990s rave features pulsing strobe, pumping bass and some psychedelic insights from a young woman seeking liberation in the illegal party scene.

Rave

  • Women dance, cruise and practice their pick up lines in this playful parody of New York lesbian life.

B.U.C.K.L.E

  • Through a visceral collage of movement, polyphonic sound and overlapping voices, artist collective B.O.S.S. capture the visceral experience of Black British sound system culture.

Collective Hum

  • Adura Onashile’s dazzling short is a reminder of the skewed power dynamics that govern so many nights out - and a reminder of why safe queer and female spaces are so important.

Expensive Shit