Chemsex

The documentary looks at something going on in hidden basements, flats and bars across London: sex parties that run for days, and the drugs taken at them. A handful of men speak to the camera, all of them trying to get out of that scene alive. And there is a health worker who has made it his business to pull them out of it. What is being described is not the parties but addiction, HIV, and why people go there in the first place. William Fairman and Max Gogarty directed it together, made for Vice. It runs eighty-three minutes. The health worker who speaks, David Stuart, runs the only programme of its kind at the 56 Dean Street clinic in London. The film judges nobody and holds nobody up as an example.