John Greyson
John Greyson co-led the Queer Summer Institute (QSI), offering the course FILM 5020: Global Queer Cinemas Confront The Pink Line, as part of the QSI. He is an award-winning Toronto video/film artist. Since 1984, his many features, shorts and transmedia works use humour and song to explore queer activist issues such as police entrapment, prison, AIDS activism, global solidarity, homo-nationalism and apartheid (both South African and Israeli).
John is the winner of 4 Teddies, 4 Canadian screen awards, and Best Film Prizes at over 50 international festivals, his works include: Death Mask (2023), Door Prize (2023), Photo Booth (2022), International Dawn Chorus Day (2020), Mercurial (2018), Gazonto (2016), Murder in Passing (2013), Fig Trees (2009), Proteus (2003), Lilies (1996), Zero Patience (1993), The Making of Monsters (1991) and Urinal (1989).
Professor Greyson’s publications include Urinal and Other Stories (Power Plant/Art Metropole) and co-editor of Queer Looks, a critical anthology of gay/lesbian media theory (Routledge). He is a co-investigator on York’s Future Cinema Lab. Supported by the Canadian Foundation forInnovation, the Future Cinema Lab is a state-of-the-art media research facility into new digital storytelling techniques and how these can critically transform a diverse array of state-of-the-art screens. John Greyson is active in various anti-censorship, AIDS, peace and queer activist media projects, including The Olive Project, Deep Dish TV, Blah Blah Blah and AIDS Action Now. His contributions as a member and through service on the boards of arts organizations include V/Tape Distribution, Inside Out Film/Video Festival, the Euclid Theatre, Trinity Square Video, Charles St. Video, LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto) and Beaver Hall Artists Housing Co-op.