Zero Patience
John Greyson
Fiction : 100’ / Music, HIV-AIDS, Gay, Politics

The Victorian explorer, Sir Richard Burton, encounters the ghost of ‘patient zero’, reportedly the first person to bring AIDS to North America. The second feature film by Canadian filmmaker and activist John Greyson is a daring musical comedy that examines the myths surrounding the origins of AIDS, whilst offering a scathing critique of systemic homophobia. A classic of queer cinema, presented here in a recently restored print.

 

QL - Retrospective
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Year: 1993

Country: UK, Canada

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Dianne Heatherington, Richardo Keens-Douglas, Bernard Behrens, Marla Lukofsky, Michael Callen

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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.


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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