Brooklyn-based Dissoluta Studios has released Irish filmmaker Lucille Carolan’s new Pride campaign video. The project is a vibrant and cinematic celebration of sapphic connection, inspired by the bar Henrietta Hudson, one of New York City’s most iconic lesbian institutions.

The campaign is a sensual portrayal of the city’s lesbian nightlife, rooted in the legacy of Henrietta Hudson and the community that has rallied behind it since 1991. For over three decades, the bar has been a force in the local lesbian scene, acting as a generational meeting spot for queer women, trans, and gender-expansive people of all kinds. 

In partnership with Henrietta Hudson, Dissoluta Studios hosted a special screening and community event during Pride Month in New York. The evening featured a premiere of the film, an opportunity to meet the creative team, and simply, a gathering honouring the iconic venue.

“In making this campaign for Henrietta Hudson, I sought to create a contemporary, cinematic editorial that builds on the venue’s own visual legacy,” says Irish director Lucille Carolan. “I loved the way Henrietta’s archival imagery from the early 2000s celebrated lesbian culture with a sense of playfulness, sexiness and intention – embracing an editorial vibe that feels more rare in how nightlife spaces present themselves today.”

 

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The centre of the campaign is lesbian joy, connection, and flirtation with moments taken out of the club environment itself and placed into a heightened, stylised world. 

“Instead of documenting nightlife, I wanted to capture the feelings that make it meaningful: attraction, friendship, performance, anticipation and community,” continues Carolan, “Through this approach, the film imagines a space where lesbian culture is not simply the backdrop, but the subject itself.”

From County Cavan, Lucille Carolan is a screenwriter and filmmaker specialising in character-driven work. She often explores intimacy, contradiction, and identity with her work, basing a majority of it in rural Ireland.

As a graduate of the National Film School of Ireland, Lucille Carolan draws a lot on personal experiences, using animals and the environment as a basis for her narrative and thematic touchstones. Now based in New York, she has won various awards for her work.  

Dissoluta Studios is a creative collective and studio focusing on producing films, photography, and collections centred around queer, feminist, and experimental storytelling. The studio creates and celebrates work focused on subculture, intimacy, and the collective experience.