John Greyson

Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...

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...

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...

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...

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.

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

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...

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,...

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...

So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

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...

An exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the...

An exquisite period piece that skillfully explores the intersections of sex, race and politics takes place in 18th century South Africa, telling the...

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

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

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. However, once there, Bilodeau...

The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the...

The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the...

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. The artists...

This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older...

This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older...

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...

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...

Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.

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.

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

Outraged by the latest bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza and Walid recruit queer novelist Jean Genet to help them sabotage the...

Outraged by the latest bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza and Walid recruit queer novelist Jean Genet to help them sabotage the...

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

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

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...

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...

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 colour pink has been ascribed many meanings, from a reflection of the feminine to a symbol of reclaimed humanity by LGBTQ2S communities. In his...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...

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

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

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

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 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...

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,...

This documentary portrait of environmental activist Lou Figurelli was produced by a workshop group at Staten Island Community TV, with John Greyson...

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

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

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

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. The artists...

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. The artists...

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. The artists...

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. The artists...

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.

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

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.

Birds from six continents on a zoom call gossip about the deaths of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi.