After the sudden death of his estranged father, a gay man retreats into the past—both literally and figuratively. Among the remnants of his childhood, he rediscovers old VHS tapes, a flickering TV, and the dusty camcorder that once captured his family’s life. But when a whiff of “VCR cleaner” sends him spiraling through a surreal, tech-saturated portal, he awakens as F@gg’aught Flamé in a submerged realm ruled by obsolete Y2K-era devices.

In this bold, genre-defying new work, personal grief collides with digital nostalgia, blending queer identity, fantasy, and performance art. The story unfolds through the language of screens, static, and self-reinvention, where the protagonist must navigate the strange rituals of playback and rewind to confront his history and find his way home.

A hallucinatory meditation on memory, technology, and transformation, the production fuses live performance, video art, and soundscape to explore how the ghosts of analog media can both trap and liberate us.