In The Foundation, Patrick Staff explores intergenerational queer relationships through historical materials. The film combines footage shot at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles—home to the archive of the erotic artist and gay icon and the community that care for it—with choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed set.

Patrick Staff is based in London, and Los Angeles. Selected exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Scaffold see Scaffold, The Showroom, London (2014); Art Turning Left, Tate Liverpool (2014); L’Heure Des Sorcieres, Le Quartier (2014); Mental Effort before Action: 1-5A-5B, South London Gallery (2013); A Factory As It Might Be (Bournville), International Project Space, Birmingham (2013); Society Is a Workshop, Banff Centre (2013); and Chewing Gum for the Social Body, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London (2012). He took part in the Lux Associate Artists Programme in 2010/11 and was the inaugural White Building/Lux Collection Residency artist in 2014.