John Greyson Movies
- 1991
The Making of Monsters
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Experimental musical based on a factual incident, the beating to death of a homosexual man in Toronto, 1985, by five teenagers.
- 2023
The Floating Man
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This intimate documentary unpacks Michael V. Smith's journey as a self-described sissy with a body he found humiliating as he developed his art to...
- 2021
International Dawn Chorus Day
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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
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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...
- 1989
The Great AZT Debate
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AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.
- 1986
Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers
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Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.
- 2011
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...
- 1984
You Taste American
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Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 1985
Kipling Meets the Cowboys
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Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter. Meanwhile, a travel agent,...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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”,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2013
Prison Arabic in 50 Days
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On Aug 16, 2013, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and Palestinian-Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani were detained without charges in Cairo's Tora Prison....
- 1989
The World is Sick (sic)
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An experimental documentary on the activist interventions at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, in June 1989. While making fun...
- 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...