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John Greyson is a Canadian director, writer, video artist, producer, and political activist, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. His outspoken persona, activism, and public image have also attracted international press and controversy.
Total trailers found: 43
23 March 2015
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance.
29 January 1997
1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago.
17 January 1985
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 video tape as they travel to Italy, Brazil, and Texas.
01 January 1989
AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.
01 April 1985
Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter.
26 September 2023
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 become a radical drag performer and genderqueer artist.
29 September 2023
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older German sexologist and gay rights pioneer during Nazi Germany.
09 May 1980
Two main characters, a young gay man, and his female (heterosexual) boss exchange stories about their personal problems, (his difficulties about being gay, and his fears about losing his job because of it).
01 January 1986
A collage of found footage from different media presenting the case of Simon Nkodi, a black gay activist and student leader in South Africa, who had been in jail for two years when the film was produced.
01 January 2011
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 new series of gay literary classics.
08 September 1988
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.
07 September 2003
An exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the passionate (true) story of two men caught in an unjust system rife with racism, homophobia and cruelty.
13 April 2025
Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV. Is he the victim of an accidental 'door prize', or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide obsession, with hourly true crime updates and rewards for clues.
03 October 2022
In 2021, aspiring chef Phelokazi Ndlwana was stabbed to death because she fought back against her rapist.
01 January 1989
An intertextual essay retelling the reactionary French Revolution thriller The Scarlet Pimpernel and featuring Percy as an apolitical dandy and his estranged boyfriend Justin, an AIDS activist fighting for the release of treatment drugs.
01 January 2010
Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”, with his own story of penguins held within the stone confines of the film farm barnyard.
01 January 1990
This documentary portrait of environmental activist Lou Figurelli was produced by a workshop group at Staten Island Community TV, with John Greyson facillitating.
12 February 2012
In June 2011, John Greyson joined a freedom flotilla trying to sail to Gaza to break Israel's blockade.
18 January 1987
The two central characters are breaking up. Moira flees to Paris; Stan goes up north with gay writer friend, Timothy.
12 May 2020
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.
01 January 1985
So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.
01 January 2008
When the Iraq Film Archives were destroyed by US bombs during the 2003 war, a journalist rescued eight scraps of celluloid from the wreckage, totalling 14.
20 January 1981
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, a Canadian / director in theatre, and a young performance artist who adopts her persona in a performance.
30 November 2017
The colour pink has been ascribed many meanings, from a reflection of the feminine to a symbol of reclaimed humanity by LGBTQ2S communities.
23 June 1996
Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by"
01 January 1984
Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom arrests.
01 January 1980
Canada resurrects the compulsory draft, but refuses to allow gays to enlist. Taking the form of a fictional community-access documentary, The First Draft purports to present struggles of a Paris, Ontario-based gay anti-war group opposing both the homophobic exclusion and the draft itself.
10 February 1989
An experimental documentary on the activist interventions at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, in June 1989.
10 September 1993
The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends.
01 January 2013
On Aug 16, 2013, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and Palestinian-Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani were detained without charges in Cairo's Tora Prison.
15 September 2000
Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.
27 December 1985
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 Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and Video.
01 January 2006
An analog animation using the same set of drawings to tell four different versions of the same story.
20 August 2008
In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover cops and accused of sodomy.
09 February 2009
FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs.
01 January 1986
Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.
23 March 1997
Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.
23 September 2022
Outraged by the latest bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza and Walid recruit queer novelist Jean Genet to help them sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho.
01 January 1987
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.
01 January 2014
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, it's been remapped onto Toronto neighbourhoods! Blow up Kensington Market, Shaw-Givens School, Scarborough General Rehab Centre.
11 September 1991
Experimental musical based on a factual incident, the beating to death of a homosexual man in Toronto, 1985, by five teenagers.
06 May 2021
Birds from six continents on a zoom call gossip about the deaths of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi.
08 March 1985
While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband confronts the politics of fantasy and washroom sex.
