John Greyson Movies
- 1985
Kipling Meets the Cowboys
Kipling Meets the Cowboys11985HD
Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter. Meanwhile, a travel agent,...
- 1996
After the Bath
After the Bath11996HD
Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...
- 1987
Black and Light
Black and Light11987HD
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...
- 1984
You Taste American
You Taste American11984HD
Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom...
- 1985
No Voice Over
No Voice Over01985HD
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...
- 2021
International Dawn Chorus Day
International Dawn Chorus Day02021HD
Birds from six continents on a zoom call gossip about the deaths of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi.
- 2023
Death Mask
Death Mask02023HD
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older...
- 2022
Mariposa
Mariposa02022HD
In 2021, aspiring chef Phelokazi Ndlwana was stabbed to death because she fought back against her rapist. She was targeted specifically because she...
- 2012
Green Laser
Green Laser02012HD
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...
- 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...
- 1985
Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short
Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short01985HD
So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.
- 2008
Rex vs. Singh
Rex vs. Singh02008HD
In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover cops and accused of sodomy. Their story becomes a...
- 2017
Pink:Diss
Pink:Diss02017HD
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...
- 2020
Prurient
Prurient02020HD
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.
- 2010
Captifs d'amour
Captifs d'amour02010HD
Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”,...
- 2006
On Message
On Message02006HD
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...
- 1989
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...
- 1989
The Great AZT Debate
The Great AZT Debate01989HD
AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.
- 1981
Dangling by Their Mouths
Dangling by Their Mouths01981HD
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,...
- 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...