Pissoir (film)

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Template:Infobox film/short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". Pissoir, retitled Urinal in some countries, was the first feature film directed and released by John Greyson.[1] Released in 1988, the film's central character is an unnamed man who conjures a circle of dead literary and artistic figures, including Sergei Eisenstein, Dorian Gray, Yukio Mishima, Frida Kahlo, and Langston Hughes, to help him formulate a response to police crackdowns on gay sex venues in Toronto,[2] blending fiction with documentary as Greyson also includes quotes from real Canadian journalistic and political figures, including Barbara Amiel and Svend Robinson, about civil liberties and public morality.[3]

The film's cast includes Paul Bettis, Pauline Carey, Lance Eng, and Olivia Rojas.[4]

The film premiered at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] It was subsequently screened at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival in 1989,[5] where it won a Teddy Award for Best Essay Film.[6]

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  1. ↑ Paul Irish, "Filmmaker combines life with art". Toronto Star, June 18, 2009.
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  3. ↑ a b Jay Scott, "From the strange to the sensational and back". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 1988.
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  5. ↑ David Overbey, "Canadian movies and makers the shakers of Berlin festival". Toronto Star, February 21, 1989.
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