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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
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John Greyson
Paul Bettis
David gonzalez
George Spelvin
Olivia Rojas
Marc Gomes
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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.
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John Greyson
Obsazení
Paul Bettis
David gonzalez
George Spelvin
Olivia Rojas
Marc Gomes
Keltie Creed
Karl Beveridge
Pauline Carey
Lance Eng
Clive Robertson
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Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell
John Greyson
John Greyson
John Greyson
John Greyson
Peter Greyson
Peter Greyson
George Hawken
George Hawken
Bill Lasovich
Robin Len
David Mcintosh
Marg Moores
David Rasmus
Leena Raudvee
Leena Raudvee
Leena Raudvee
Glenn Schellenberg
Adam Swica
Almerinda Trassavos
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Vydáno ve Spojených státech 1988
Vydáno ve Spojených státech 1989
Vydáno ve Spojených státech v únoru 1989
Vydáno ve Spojených státech v červnu 1989
Vydáno ve Spojených státech v září 1988
Shown at Berlin Film Festival (Panorama) February 18, 19 & 20, 1989.
Shown at Global Village Documentary Festival in Los Angeles June 16-24, 1989.
Shown at New York International Festival of Lesbian & Gay Film June 15, 16, 18 & 20, 1989.
Promítáno na Mezinárodním filmovém festivalu v Seattlu 11. května – 4. června 1989.
Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals (Perspectives Canada) September 8-17, 1988.
Feature directorial debut for filmmaker John Greyson.
Vydáno ve Spojených státech 1989 (uvedeno na Mezinárodním filmovém festivalu v Seattlu 11. května – 4. června 1989.)
Vydáno ve Spojených státech 1988
Released in United States February 1989 (Shown at Berlin Film Festival (Panorama) February 18, 19 & 20, 1989.)
Released in United States June 1989 (Shown at Global Village Documentary Festival in Los Angeles June 16-24, 1989.)
Released in United States September 1988 (Shown at Toronto Festival of Festivals (Perspectives Canada) September 8-17, 1988.)
Released in United States 1989 (Shown in New York City (MoMA) October 13 — December 24, 1989.)
Released in United States June 1989 (Shown at New York International Festival of Lesbian & Gay Film June 15, 16, 18 & 20, 1989.)
A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.
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abbreviated notes from a public toilet lecture streamed alongside this movie, posting for posterity: Toronto’s bathhouse raids are a pretty well-publicized example of the legacy of harm the city’s police force has inflicted on its queer community, and the history of tearooms more broadly is one of the more explicit case studies of how washrooms become sites of surveillance and policing Robert Yang’s video game The Tearoom (citing William E Jones’ work on the subject) is a historical public washroom simulator where the player attempts to cruise by some urinals — scope out a guy, determine if he’s game, and suck his dick. present throughout the game is the danger you’ll get caught, either by a straight homophobe or a…
i have yet to see the mishima movie from paul schrader but i doubt it features him taking a shower with sergei eisenstein does it.
Tell everybody to piss off tonight
Well, they should piss off and leave you alone in your world tonight John Waters and William Wegman’s gay love child that was conceived in a public toilet. Informative made for TV documentary with faux elements meets late 80’s Alternative/Indie music videos with a splash of Microsoft paint. Political, satirical, ahead of it’s time and completely outside time where there is no forwards or backwards and everything just lives present in one moment. It’s time to flush away outdated ideals and piss away the streaks of homophobia that remain. It’s time to normalize fucking in a public toilet and living your best life, loving who you want to love.
half-documentary, half-science fiction about Mishima, Eisenstein, Florence Wyle, Frida Kahlo and Langston Hughes forming a superteam to clash with Toronto Police Services over the criminalization of gay washroom hookups?? was this movie designed by a supercomputer to delight me specifically. really good entry point not just to the history of cottaging but to the different ways washrooms have been weaponized as sites of surveillance and control. lots to look at: crucifix fellatio, sets crudely illustrated on draped fabric, digital layering and graphics that look like the halfway point between Peter Greenaway and Corel Draw tutorials Mishima letting a Canadian accent slip in was especially charming! “Long live the stinking washrooms. Some already merit bronze plaques”
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Yukio Mishima, Langston Hughes, Sergei Eisenstein, and Frida Kahlo all walk into a public bathroom. and give talks on the history of tearoom sex and the increasing government surveillance and regulation of it?? Greyson’s debut feature feels like a cross between a stage play and some public access kids show for the CBC, delivering a serious thesis through a series of stylistically different presentations by our cast of dead, queer historical figures. Maybe a little long, but totally compelling. Would pair nicely with William E. Jones’ Massillon.
everything you come to love in indie queer films. temporal playfulness, inventive formal collage, cheesy winking cliches, literary referentiality, all in the service of a truly entertaining filmic essay about sex in public bathrooms. original yet classic and familiar. hits all the right social and political dimensions for a dynamic and energising discussion of policing and the neoliberal futility of «gay rights». loved it, LOVED it
Tohle je The League of Extraordinary Gentleman for discourse attuned queers. Can be watched here.
absolutely wonderful. the film’s poetics feel every bit as necessary to the “documentarian” aspects as the “documentarian” aspects are to its poetics. it feels a bit strange to call this movie “poetic” when it’s about such serious stuff — namely the targeting of gay men in public restrooms by the toronto police — but i think that happens to be true here without trivializing or obscuring the subject matter. the effect is actually pretty profound, and i don’t say that lightly: it creates the space to actively imagine a sexual stigma-free, cop-free world (without entirely spelling it out or handing it to the viewer in a cathartic eruption, which imo would be a mistake). it therefore wouldn’t be quite right…
surprisingly more entertaining and paced better than i thought it might be after the first 20 mins. not entirely my shit but something this idiosyncratic and formally outrageous has got to be on more peoples radar, catch me knocking this up to a 4/5 in pride month
cool to learn about the history of toilets, cottaging, and Canada’s fucked police violence against queers in the 1980s. i really know very little about Canada so it was good to get a snapshot. liked the concept, the vibe of all the characters, and seeing this sort of artist film from the 80s
God what I would do to see John Greyson and John Waters work together. I’m very much excited to go through Greysons filmography, this was fantastic and explores something that nobody else could have ever bothered to explore at the time with such a niche but big part of the queer underground subculture, which is told in such a unique way.
I found everything involving the characters poorly done and uninteresting, but the documentary interview sections were cool to see.
Urinal — An Ugly Film (2023)
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