Critical Writing Index

Our People:: Janis Cole and Holy Dale in the 1970s

by Jon Davies

Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, May 2017, pp. 242-244

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2017

Davies describes the first two films of Janis Cole and Holly Dale, made at Sheridan College in their early twenties, as having sex worker and entertainer subjects of every conceivable gender and sexuality, that populate their blissfully frank and open-hearted student films without any trace of sanctimony. In these early shorts he finds the groundwork for their profoundly ethical and anti-moralistic queer verité filmmaking.

ITEM 2017.042 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

P4W: Prison for WomenJanis Cole

P4W: Prison for WomenHolly Dale

Hookers on DavieJanis Cole

Hookers on DavieHolly Dale

Cream SodaJanis Cole

Cream SodaHolly Dale

Minimum Charge No CoverJanis Cole

Minimum Charge No CoverHolly Dale