John Greyson Movies
- 1985

Kipling Meets the Cowboys
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Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter. Meanwhile, a travel agent,...
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- 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.
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- 2013

Prison Arabic in 50 Days
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On Aug 16, 2013, Canadian filmmaker John Greyson and Palestinian-Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani were detained without charges in Cairo's Tora Prison....
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- 2011

The Ballad of Roy and Silo
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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...
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- 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.
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- 1985

The Jungle Boy
The Jungle Boy51985HD
While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband...
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- 2008

Rex vs. Singh
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In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover cops and accused of sodomy. Their story becomes a...
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- 2023

The Floating Man
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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...
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- 1987

The ADS Epidemic
The ADS Epidemic01987HD
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.
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- 2017

Pink:Diss
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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...
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- 1986

A Moffie Called Simon
A Moffie Called Simon41986HD
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...
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- 1990

No Way Charlie Brown
No Way Charlie Brown01990HD
This documentary portrait of environmental activist Lou Figurelli was produced by a workshop group at Staten Island Community TV, with John Greyson...
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- 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...
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- 1984

You Taste American
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Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom...
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- 2010

Captifs d'amour
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Irony abounds in this split screen depiction of unjustified imprisonment. Greyson traces Jean Genet’s “Un Chant d’Amour”,...
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- 1986

Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers
Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers41986HD
Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.
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- 1985

Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look
Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look01985HD
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...
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- 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...
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- 2008

14.3 Seconds
14.3 Seconds02008HD
When the Iraq Film Archives were destroyed by US bombs during the 2003 war, a journalist rescued eight scraps of celluloid from the wreckage,...
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- 1996

After the Bath
After the Bath3.71996HD
Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers...
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