John Greyson
John Greyson is Toronto video/film artist and pioneer of the new queer cinema. An associate professor in film production at York University, he was awarded the Toronto Arts Award for Film/Video, 2000, and the Bell Canada Video Art Award in 2007.
Since 1984, his many hybrid features, shorts and transmedia works have explored such queer activist issues as police violence, prison, AIDS activism, solidarity, homo-nationalism and apartheid (both South African and Israeli). These include International Dawn Chorus Day (2021), Mercurial (2018), Gazonto (2016), Murder in Passing (2013), Fig Trees (2009), Lilies (1996), Zero Patience (1993), The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989). His videos/films have won 4 Teddys, 5 Canadian Screen Awards (Genies), over 30 Best Film Prizes at international festivals such as Locarno, Berlin, TIFF, London and San Francisco, and are the subject of the critical anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (Longfellow/ McKenzie/ Waugh, 2013). He teaches in York University's Cinema & Media Arts department, was a member of the Blah Blah Blah and Olive Project media collectives, co-edited Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian & Gay Film & Video (1993), co-produced the cable series Toronto Living with AIDS (1991) and is currently producing the AIDS activist media project Viral Interventions (2021-24).
Artist Code: 021
Videography
2023, 10:00 minutes, colour, English
2022, 110:00 minutes, colour, English (Italian s/t available)
2021, 15:14 minutes, English with English subtitles
2014, 05:00 minutes, no language, English captions
2013, 04:30 minutes, colour, Arabic and English
Impatient: John Greyson (DVD Box-set)
2012, 695:00 minutes
2012, 15:25 minutes, colour, English
2011, 06:00 minutes, colour, English
2010, 05:14 minutes, B&W, No language
2009, 29:38 minutes, colour, English
2009, 14:00 minutes, colour, English, Bosnian (with subtitles)
2009, 104:00 minutes, colour, English
2008, 09:25 minutes
2006, 09:14 minutes, Colour, English
2004, 05:00 minutes, Colour, English
2003, 08:00 minutes, Colour, English
2003, 05:00 minutes, Colour, English
2001, 06:00 minutes, colour, English
2001, 04:00 minutes, colour, English
1999, 08:00 minutes, colour, English,
1998, 05:35 minutes, colour, English
1997, 90:00 minutes, colour, English
1995, 45:00 minutes, colour, English
1994, 85:00 minutes, colour, English
1990, 15:00 minutes, colour, English
1989, 32:00 minutes, colour, English
1989, 38:00 minutes, colour, English
AIDS: Angry Initiatives, Defiant Strategies
1988, 58:00 minutes
1988, 100:00 minutes, English (available with French subtitles)
1987, 04:00 minutes, colour, English
1986, 24:00 minutes, colour, English
Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers
1986, 27:00 minutes, colour, English
1985, 45:00 minutes, colour, English
1985, 21:56 minutes, colour, English
1985, 15:30 minutes, colour, English
1984, 04:58 minutes, colour, English
Manzana por Manzana: Defending Reconstruction In Nicaragua
1983, 35:00 minutes, colour, English
Breathing Through Opposing Nostrils
1982, 35:00 minutes, colour, English
1980, 40:00 minutes, colour, English
1980, 40:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . Toronto: Public Books, 2024.
by and . New York: The Flaherty, 2023.
by . Vacouver: UBC Press, 2019.
by . Archives of American Art, March 2017.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2016.
by . Guardian Weekly, Oct. 18, 2013, v. 189, no. 19.
by . The parkdale-Liberty Villager, Jan. 10, 2013.
by . Toronto: Images Festival, 2013.
by . CBC ARTS, May 21, 2009. CBC News, 2009.
by . TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival, Aug. 28, 2009.
by et al. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation, Sept. 9, 2009.
by . The Globe and Mail, Sept. 2, 2009.
by . The National Post, Sept. 11, 2009.
by et al. The Guardian, Sept. 1, 2009.
by . Xtra!, Mar. 27, 2008, no. 611.
by . Now, Jan. 3, 2007, v. 27, no. 18.
by . Fuse, July 2007, v. 30, no. 3.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2007.
by . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.
by . The State of The Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, 2006. Toronto: Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in publication, 2006.
by . Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Fall 2006, v. 15, no. 2.
by . Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Spring 2003, v. 12, no. 1.
by . EYE WEEKLY, June 13, 2002, v. 11, no. 36.
by and . Insomiac Press, 2002.
by and . Insomiac Press, 2002.
by and . Insomiac Press, 2002.
by and . Insomiac Press, 2002.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2001.
by . Minneapolis: Walker Art Centre, 2000.
Toronto: Absolute Choice Curatorial Collective, 1999.
Convergence Divergence> The Merging Film and Video, 1999. Halifax: The Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative, 1999.
by and . Trade Initiative, 1998. Vancouver: Satellite Video Exchange Society, 1998.
by . The Globe and Mail, May 30, 1997.
by . Queer Looking/ Queer Acting, 1997. Mount St. Vincent: Mount St. Vincent University Press, 1997.
by . NOW, Dec. 25, 1997, v. 17, no. 17.
by . VIDEO re/VIEW: The (best) Source for Critical Writings on Canadian Artists' Video, 1996. Toronto: Art Metropole and Vtape, 1996.
by . Jump Cut, Mar. 1996, no. 40.
by . Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996.
by . YYZ Books, McGill University, 1995.
by . Parallelogramme, 1994, v. 20, no. 3.
by . Cinematheque Film Programme Guide, Fall 1994. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1994.
by . Now, Feb. 23, 1994, v. 13, no. 26.
by . The Toronto Star, Jan. 21, 1994.
by . Afterimage, Nov. 1994, v. 22, no. 4.
by . The Globe and Mail, Nov. 27, 1993.
by . The Globe and Mail, Sept. 20 Spring, 1993.
by . Xtra!, Sept. 3, 1993, no. 231.
by et al. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1993.
by . Parallèlogramme, 1992, v. 18, no. 3.
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by . Dunlop Art Gallery, 1991. Regina, SK: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1991.
by . Identity and Consciousness: (Re)Presenting the Self, 1991. Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1991.
by . Xtra!, May 10, 1991, no. 172.
by . Now, Jan. 4, 1990, v. 9, no. 17.
by . Matriart, Summer 1990, v. 1, no. 2.
by . Screen, Summer 1990, v. 31, no. 3.
by . Video Networks, 1989, v. 13, no. 314.
by . New American Film and Video Series, 1989. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989.
by . Canadian Art, Summer 1989, v. 6, no. 2.
by . Aspetti e Tendenze della Ricerca Video Canadese, 1989. Ferrara: Ferrara: Centro Video Arte, 1989.
by . Ferrara: Centro Video Arte Ferrara, 1989.
by . Video Guide, Fall 1989, v. 10, no. 48.
by . Cinema Canada, Sept. 1988, no. 155.
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by and . Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d'histoire), 1987. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987.
by and . Fuse, Fall 1987, v. 11, no. 3.
by . Afterimage, May 1987, v. 14, no. 10.
by et al. Toronto: A Space (Artists Space), 1986.
by . The Globe and Mail, Feb. 22, 1984.
by . Toronto: Litho Offset, 1984.
by . The New American Film and Video Series - Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan..