John Greyson Filmes

  • 1986
    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

    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.

    Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers
  • 1987
    The ADS Epidemic

    The ADS Epidemic

    The ADS Epidemic

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    A short remake of Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice where instead of a cholera epidemic it's the "Acquired Dread of Sex" (ADS) epidemic.

    The ADS Epidemic
  • 2023
    Death Mask

    Death Mask

    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...

    Death Mask
  • 2020
    Prurient

    Prurient

    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.

    Prurient
  • 1981
    Dangling by Their Mouths

    Dangling by Their Mouths

    Dangling by Their Mouths

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    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
  • 2023
    The Floating Man

    The Floating Man

    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...

    The Floating Man
  • 2013
    Prison Arabic in 50 Days

    Prison Arabic in 50 Days

    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....

    Prison Arabic in 50 Days
  • 1980
    He's a Growing Boy, She's Turning Forty

    He's a Growing Boy, She's Turning Forty

    He's a Growing Boy, She's Turning Forty

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    Two main characters, a young gay man, and his female (heterosexual) boss exchange stories about their personal problems, (his difficulties about...

    He's a Growing Boy, She's Turning Forty
  • 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
  • 1980
    The First Draft

    The First Draft

    The First Draft

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    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
  • 1990
    No Way Charlie Brown

    No Way Charlie Brown

    No Way Charlie Brown

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    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
  • 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
  • 1984
    You Taste American

    You Taste American

    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...

    You Taste American
  • 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
  • 1985
    The Jungle Boy

    The Jungle Boy

    The Jungle Boy

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    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
  • 2008
    14.3 Seconds

    14.3 Seconds

    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,...

    14.3 Seconds
  • 1991
    The Making of Monsters

    The Making of Monsters

    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.

    The Making of Monsters
  • 1989
    The Pink Pimpernel

    The Pink Pimpernel

    The Pink Pimpernel

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

    The Pink Pimpernel
  • 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
  • 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