Blue Lagoon explores the links between industrial extraction, ecological care, and somatic release through the lens of a post-industrial North East England coastline. The film features a stretch of coast near Seaton Carew, locally known as the 'Blue Lagoon', which shares its name with an infamous 1970s nightclub located just down the road. This twinning of coastal landscape and nightclub space fuses these distinct environments, leaning into overlapping layers of site, memory, and imagined geography. In connecting these references, the film reflects on how nightlife culture so frequently inherits industrial geography, turning spaces built for heavy extraction and manufacturing into sites for music and movement. In doing so, the work examines the friction between the necessities of labour, leisure, and latent threat, exploring how industrial terrain is reconfigured into a sanctuary for restorative and collective joy.

Adjacent to these coastal sites, three distinct generations of energy production — a nuclear power station, an offshore wind turbine assembly port, and a decommissioned oil rig undergoing dismantling — exist in immediate proximity to a wildlife conservation area, a golf course, and the quiet routines of local dog walkers and birdwatchers. Moving beyond a localised landscape study, Blue Lagoon considers the paradoxical co-existence of heavy industry and protected coastal ecologies, constructing a synthetic, composite interior that contrasts the physical shore with an imagined nightclub.

The production methodology mirrors these spatial tensions, weaving location field observations, personal mobile phone archives from club nights, and staged studio environments. Guided by a score that transforms coastal field recordings into a driving electronic track, the film moves beyond simple binaries of industry versus environment. In raising questions around how we navigate regimes of extraction alongside the desire to protect coastal ecologies, Blue Lagoon positions the dance floor as a vital sanctuary: an essential mechanism for counterbalancing labour, processing loss, negotiating environmental friction, and sustaining collective presence in times of crisis.