Wrik Mead Trailers
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Known internationally for his short animations that follow the smoke of Genet's "Un chant d'amour" through endless poetic circles and spirals of desire, Mead's corpus signifies the resilience and seduction of queer culture as it navigates the gaps in mainstream culture. Mead received his MA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. He currently lives in Toronto and teaches in the Digital Painting and Expanded Animation specialization at OCAD University.
Most Popular Wrik Mead Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
01 January 1987
When you wake up and you have so much to do that you just want to go back to bed. The illusion created by shooting the entire film in reverse emphasizes the entire cycle of life.
01 January 1992
Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and motion.
01 January 1987
Utilizing human pixillation, Isabelle's demand to nurture conjures a variety of sensations... perverse, kitsch, sweet witch voodoo?
01 January 2021
Tender memories of a first gay embrace, of shock and exhilaration and disavowal animated against the waves of a deep blue lake.
10 September 2020
"Broken Relationship" moves through a kaleidoscope of colour and pixels to fragments of embraced bodies.
01 January 2011
Begins with a celestial introduction, leading into an otherworldly, sensuous, glamorous journey through the glimmering bodily landscapes of two drag queen lovers.
01 January 1998
Mixing fact and fiction, this film tells the story of Dr. F.R. Wake and his bizarre creation, which became known as "the fruit machine.
01 January 1988
The political emotions of the butcher shop are discussed within the codes of Catholicism. Purging Catholic guilt, sins of the flesh, and flesh eating.
01 January 1992
“Deviate” is a short Super 8 film made specifically for the Memorial Project. While friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, talk about him, the viewer sees old footage of Dan expressing his feelings on the matter.
01 January 1994
Homebelly combines waking dreams with unsettling fragments of this and that. An icy soundscape is set to a live-action animated drama featuring a sleeping body and a persistant rock.
06 December 2020
A short film that looks at the global push back on the civil liberties of the LGBTQ community. A kaleidoscope of anti-gay protests, captured and posted on the internet almost always erupt into violence.
01 January 1999
"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom.
01 January 1998
Cupid gets beaten at his own game.
12 April 2021
How To Clean Your Closet combines glitched clips from adult films with sound bites from an old tape cassette with the same title.
01 January 1995
"In '(ab)NORMAL' the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches.
15 August 2008
Toybox combines creepiness and playfulness in a series of animations that manipulate the most misused toy of all - the penis.
01 September 2019
Two animated male figures are drawn together and pulled away until they fall into a pit of protesters.
17 March 2016
This film is based on one year in the filmmaker's fractured life. Rotoscoped figures are layered with stills and live video footage to create an open narrative based on events in his life that took place in 1975.
01 January 2003
A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.
28 March 2024
Beware takes sound bites from the 1961 anti-homosexual propaganda film Boys Beware and flips it on its head.
01 January 2009
A short film that touches on sexual orientation, homophobia and acceptance. An animated figure swings at the viewer while a robotic voice whispers so that no one around him can hear.
01 March 2008
Through pixilation a male centerfold attempts to embellish his features only to take on more than he can handle.
01 January 1995
In this quintessential 'coming out' film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement.
11 September 1992
Naked male body meets crumbling brick wall... in an embrace?
01 January 2001
Stop motion experimental film that shows a man watching porn and releasing himself.
01 January 1996
A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a frostbitten man on the rocks.
01 January 2000
Based on real-life experiences, “camp” recounts the stories of homosexual survivors of the WWII concentration camps.
01 January 2002
A master drags out his slave and attempts to control him. Things go terribly wrong. Every touch of the slave produces a distortion that encompasses the master.
01 January 2008
Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one another.
01 January 1997
Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity.
01 January 1999
The curtains are drawn, a clown stands in the spotlight, the reception is dismal. Before s/he can even begin to perform, debilitating fear takes over.
01 January 2017
Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies.
01 January 2010
A psycho-drama that mixes live action, pixilation and stop-motion. It follows a man as he falls from one state of grief to another.
01 January 2004
The housecall in "Filth" doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare.
