John Greyson Movies

  • 1985
    Kipling Meets the Cowboys

    Kipling Meets the Cowboys

    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,...

    Kipling Meets the Cowboys
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1986
    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

    11986HD

    Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.

    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers
  • 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
  • 2008
    Rex vs. Singh

    Rex vs. Singh

    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...

    Rex vs. Singh
  • 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
  • 2014
    Gazonto

    Gazonto

    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,...

    Gazonto
  • 2022
    Mariposa

    Mariposa

    Mariposa

    02022HD

    In 2021, aspiring chef Phelokazi Ndlwana was stabbed to death because she fought back against her rapist. She was targeted specifically because she...

    Mariposa
  • 2012
    Green Laser

    Green Laser

    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...

    Green Laser
  • 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
  • 1985
    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

    01985HD

    So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
  • 2010
    Captifs d'amour

    Captifs d'amour

    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”,...

    Captifs d'amour
  • 2017
    Pink:Diss

    Pink:Diss

    Pink:Diss

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    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
  • 2020
    Prurient

    Prurient

    Prurient

    02020HD

    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.

    Prurient
  • 2006
    On Message

    On Message

    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...

    On Message
  • 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)
  • 1989
    The Great AZT Debate

    The Great AZT Debate

    The Great AZT Debate

    01989HD

    AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.

    The Great AZT Debate
  • 1981
    Dangling by Their Mouths

    Dangling by Their Mouths

    Dangling by Their Mouths

    01981HD

    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,...

    Dangling by Their Mouths
  • 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