John Greyson Movies
- 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...
- 1996
After the Bath
After the Bath11996HD
Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...
- 2023
Death Mask
Death Mask02023HD
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older...
- 2013
Prison Arabic in 50 Days
Prison Arabic in 50 Days02013HD
On Aug 16, 2013, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and Palestinian-Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani were detained without charges in Cairo's Tora Prison....
- 2011
The Ballad of Roy and Silo
The Ballad of Roy and Silo02011HD
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...
- 2012
Green Laser
Green Laser02012HD
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...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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.
- 1988
Urinal
Urinal41988HD
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...
- 1985
The Jungle Boy
The Jungle Boy01985HD
While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband...
- 2010
Captifs d'amour
Captifs d'amour02010HD
Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”,...
- 1990
No Way Charlie Brown
No Way Charlie Brown01990HD
This documentary portrait of environmental activist Lou Figurelli was produced by a workshop group at Staten Island Community TV, with John Greyson...
- 1985
Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look01985HD
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...
- 1987
Black and Light
Black and Light11987HD
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...
- 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...
- 2017
Pink:Diss
Pink:Diss02017HD
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...
- 2008
14.3 Seconds
14.3 Seconds02008HD
When the Iraq Film Archives were destroyed by US bombs during the 2003 war, a journalist rescued eight scraps of celluloid from the wreckage,...
- 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...