To mark the release of a DVD box set and a new monograph dedicated to the work of New Queer Cinema pioneer John Greyson, TIFF partners with Vtape and the Art Gallery of Ontario for a multi-venue retrospective of the work of one of Canada's most singular cinematic voices.
Events in John Greyson: Impatient
John Greyson's AIDS musical is a wickedly funny postmodern pastiche that combines activist zeal with aesthetic playfulness.
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Friday March 30
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07:00 PM
120330TBLB41900
(TA)
Tilda Swinton stars in Derek Jarman's surreal, Queer Nation-reimagining of Christopher Marlowe's ode to doomed homo love.
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Sunday April 1
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04:00 PM
120401TBLB31600
(TA)
The lives of two AIDS activists are interwoven with a radical stage performance in John Greyson's operatic docudrama.
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Monday April 2
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06:30 PM
120402TBLB31830
(TA)
John Greyson's passionate, luminescent tale of love and betrayal from the celebrated play by Marcel Marc-Bouchard won the Genie for Best Picture.
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Thursday April 5
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06:30 PM
120405TBLB31830
(ER)
Notes
Launched to international recognition in 1993 with his provocative AIDS musical Zero Patience, Toronto filmmaker John Greyson established himself as a leading figure in the loosely defined New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s. In an extensive body of work that ranges from documentary and historical fiction to filmed operas and experimental video art, Greyson employs Brechtian methods to refashion well-worn cinematic tropes as instruments of social and political activism, engaging the audience critically while never forgetting the power of pathos, humour and sensuality in telling his stories of forbidden love and struggles for recognition and liberation.
To mark the release of a DVD box set and a new monograph on Zero Patience, TIFF partners with Vtape and the Art Gallery of Ontario for a multi-venue retrospective of the work of one of Canada's most singular cinematic voices. — Noah Cowan
For full schedule of screenings, events and locations, go to johngreyzone.wordpress.com.