John Greyson Movies

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

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...

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.

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

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...

Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter. Meanwhile, a travel agent,...

In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover cops and accused of sodomy. Their story becomes a...

Experimental musical based on a factual incident, the beating to death of a homosexual man in Toronto, 1985, by five teenagers.

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,...

On Aug 16, 2013, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and Palestinian-Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani were detained without charges in Cairo's Tora Prison....

Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom...

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...

Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”,...

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...

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

When the Iraq Film Archives were destroyed by US bombs during the 2003 war, a journalist rescued eight scraps of celluloid from the wreckage,...

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...

An experimental documentary on the activist interventions at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, in June 1989. While making fun...

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,...

Canada resurrects the compulsory draft, but refuses to allow gays to enlist. Taking the form of a fictional community-access documentary, The First...