John Greyson Movies

  • 1980
    The First Draft

    The First Draft

    The First Draft

    01980HD

    Canada resurrects the compulsory draft, but refuses to allow gays to enlist. Taking the form of a fictional community-access documentary, The First...

    The First Draft
  • 1996
    After the Bath

    After the Bath

    After the Bath

    11996HD

    Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...

    After the Bath
  • 2023
    Death Mask

    Death Mask

    Death Mask

    02023HD

    This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older...

    Death Mask
  • 2013
    Prison Arabic in 50 Days

    Prison Arabic in 50 Days

    Prison Arabic in 50 Days

    02013HD

    On Aug 16, 2013, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and Palestinian-Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani were detained without charges in Cairo's Tora Prison....

    Prison Arabic in 50 Days
  • 2011
    The Ballad of Roy and Silo

    The Ballad of Roy and Silo

    The Ballad of Roy and Silo

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    Two gay penguins receive an all-expenses paid, same-sex wedding in Toronto. There's a catch, however - the couple must serve as spokesmodels for a...

    The Ballad of Roy and Silo
  • 2012
    Green Laser

    Green Laser

    Green Laser

    02012HD

    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...

    Green Laser
  • 1985
    No Voice Over

    No Voice Over

    No Voice Over

    01985HD

    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...

    No Voice Over
  • 2014
    Gazonto

    Gazonto

    Gazonto

    02014HD

    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,...

    Gazonto
  • 1989
    The World is Sick (sic)

    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...

    The World is Sick (sic)
  • 2021
    International Dawn Chorus Day

    International Dawn Chorus Day

    International Dawn Chorus Day

    02021HD

    Birds from six continents on a zoom call gossip about the deaths of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi.

    International Dawn Chorus Day
  • 1988
    Urinal

    Urinal

    Urinal

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    A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists...

    Urinal
  • 1985
    The Jungle Boy

    The Jungle Boy

    The Jungle Boy

    01985HD

    While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband...

    The Jungle Boy
  • 2010
    Captifs d'amour

    Captifs d'amour

    Captifs d'amour

    02010HD

    Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”,...

    Captifs d'amour
  • 1990
    No Way Charlie Brown

    No Way Charlie Brown

    No Way Charlie Brown

    01990HD

    This documentary portrait of environmental activist Lou Figurelli was produced by a workshop group at Staten Island Community TV, with John Greyson...

    No Way Charlie Brown
  • 1985
    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look

    01985HD

    Luc Bourdon, Marc Paradis and Simon B. Robert are curators for a selection of Canadian video to be presented within the context of the 13th...

    Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
  • 1987
    Black and Light

    Black and Light

    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...

    Black and Light
  • 1989
    The Pink Pimpernel

    The Pink Pimpernel

    The Pink Pimpernel

    01989HD

    An intertextual essay retelling the reactionary French Revolution thriller The Scarlet Pimpernel and featuring Percy as an apolitical dandy and his...

    The Pink Pimpernel
  • 2017
    Pink:Diss

    Pink:Diss

    Pink:Diss

    02017HD

    The colour pink has been ascribed many meanings, from a reflection of the feminine to a symbol of reclaimed humanity by LGBTQ2S communities. In his...

    Pink:Diss
  • 2008
    14.3 Seconds

    14.3 Seconds

    14.3 Seconds

    02008HD

    When the Iraq Film Archives were destroyed by US bombs during the 2003 war, a journalist rescued eight scraps of celluloid from the wreckage,...

    14.3 Seconds
  • 1984
    You Taste American

    You Taste American

    You Taste American

    11984HD

    Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom...

    You Taste American