John Greyson Movies
- 1987
Black and Light
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The two central characters are breaking up. Moira flees to Paris; Stan goes up north with gay writer friend, Timothy. Moira returns and joins Stan...
- 1984
You Taste American
You Taste American11984HD
Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom...
- 1985
Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short01985HD
So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.
- 2008
14.3 Seconds
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When the Iraq Film Archives were destroyed by US bombs during the 2003 war, a journalist rescued eight scraps of celluloid from the wreckage,...
- 1986
A Moffie Called Simon
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A collage of found footage from different media presenting the case of Simon Nkodi, a black gay activist and student leader in South Africa, who had...
- 1996
After the Bath
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Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...
- 1985
No Voice Over
No Voice Over01985HD
No Voice Over is a story of communication and affection, focusing on the close ties between three women artists as they correspond via audio and...
- 2021
International Dawn Chorus Day
International Dawn Chorus Day02021HD
Birds from six continents on a zoom call gossip about the deaths of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi.
- 2023
Death Mask
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This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older...
- 2014
Gazonto
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Gazonto, the fun new online video game -- bringing the Gaza war home to Hogtown! You can recreate the 2014 Israeli assault, bomb by bomb -- but hey,...
- 1989
The Pink Pimpernel
The Pink Pimpernel01989HD
An intertextual essay retelling the reactionary French Revolution thriller The Scarlet Pimpernel and featuring Percy as an apolitical dandy and his...
- 2008
Rex vs. Singh
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In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover cops and accused of sodomy. Their story becomes a...
- 2020
Prurient
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A poem about sex work in the age of COVID to the music of Handel. Let me weep over my cruel fate, and let me sigh for liberty.
- 2012
Green Laser
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In June 2011, John Greyson joined a freedom flotilla trying to sail to Gaza to break Israel's blockade. Green Laser weaves together interviews and...
- 2010
Captifs d'amour
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Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”,...
- 2006
On Message
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An analog animation using the same set of drawings to tell four different versions of the same story. The emotional fallout of two witnesses to a...
- 1989
The World is Sick (sic)
The World is Sick (sic)01989HD
An experimental documentary on the activist interventions at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, in June 1989. While making fun...
- 1989
The Great AZT Debate
The Great AZT Debate01989HD
AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.
- 1981
Dangling by Their Mouths
Dangling by Their Mouths01981HD
A 60 minute tape that tells in flash-form the story of a European critic and her relationship to three people; her lesbian lover who died of cancer,...
- 1980
The First Draft
The First Draft01980HD
Canada resurrects the compulsory draft, but refuses to allow gays to enlist. Taking the form of a fictional community-access documentary, The First...