Films A to Z
Urinal
- Runtime:
- 100 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1988
- Country:
- Kanada
- Director:
- Cast:
- Pauline Carey
Paul Bettis
George Spelvin
Keltie Creed
Lance Eng
David Gonzales
Olivia Rojas - Production Company:
- Greyson Productions
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Essay Film
- Teddy Award:
- Best Documentary/ Essay Film
Eisenstein, Mishima, Frida Kahlo and other dead artists are uncannily summoned on a mission to probe the policing of public toilets in Ontario. They discover that, since 1981, hundreds of men have been arrested, victims of video surveillance. The key to all this seems to be a portrait of Dorian Gray. Part news story, part surreal comic invention, John Greyson's URINAL is at the cutting edge of new gay cinema: passionate, playful, complex and sharp. (frameline)
BIOGRAFIE John Greyson
The Canadian film and video artist was born in Nelson, British Columbia in 1960. He studied film at the Canadian Film Center and has made over 60 award-winning feature films, installations, transmedia works and shorts. In 1989, he won a Teddy Award for Urinal; in 1991, he received another for The Making of Monsters. His work combines documentary and fictional elements and explores issues including queer activism, homophobic violence, AIDS activism, anti-apartheid and anti-war struggles, conflicts in the Middle East, police entrapment and prison abolition. He has taught film production at York University in Toronto since 2014.
FILMOGRAFIE John Greyson (selection)
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2018 Towel
2018 Gazonto
2017 Memurial
2011/2012 Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2012
2011 Green Laser
2010 Rex Vs. Singh
2010 Covered
2008 Fig Trees
2007 Orange Clouds
1997 Uncut
1993 Zero Patience
1990 The Making of Monsters
1988 Urinal