Death Mask
John Greyson
Experimental : 10' / Activism, Performance, Politics, Relationship

In 1933, a young Chinese medical student falls madly in love with a much-older Berlin sexologist, the legendary gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld. They travel the world together, eagerly documenting diverse sexual subcultures, but then Hirschfeld’s Institute is ransacked by the Nazis, and they are forced into exile, fleeing across Europe.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa
September 24 | 18h30 | Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3 Buy Tickets
QL - Short Film Competition
https://vtape.org/

/ Details

Year: 2023

Country: Canada

Language: english

Subtitles: no subtitles

With: Njo Kong King, Spencer Britten, Jera Wolfe

/ Direction

John Greyson

Canada


John Greyson is a video/film artist and pioneer of the New Queer Cinema. Since 1984, his many features, shorts and transmedia works have explored such queer activist issues as police violence, prison, AIDS activism, solidarity, homo-nationalism, and apartheid. He teaches in Toronto’s York University’s Cinema & Media Arts department.


Filmography

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

 

2023 - Death Mask (Experimental Short)

2021 - Dawn Chorus Day (Short Documentary)

2009 - Fig Trees (Documentary)

2000 - The Law of Enclosures (Feature Film)

1997 - Uncut (Feature Film)

1996 - Lilies (Feature Film)

1993 - Zero Patience (Feature Film)

1991 - The Making of Monsters (Experimental Short)

1989 - Urinal (Feature Film)

1987 - The ADS Epidemic (Short Film)

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