John Greyson Movies

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

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...

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,...

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.

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...