Wrik Mead

Grotesque

Wrik Mead

Ryan Randall

A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.

Cupid

Wrik Mead

David Archer, Steve Marshall

Cupid gets beaten at his own game.

Frostbite

Wrik Mead

A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a frostbitten man on the rocks.

(ab)NORMAL

Wrik Mead, Isabelle Auger

David Archer, Myles Roberts

"In '(ab)NORMAL' the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches." - Toronto International Film Festival

Stage Fright

Wrik Mead

Camp

Wrik Mead

Based on real-life experiences, “camp” recounts the stories of homosexual survivors of the WWII concentration camps. A series of short, expressionistic vignettes weave together these horrific experiences. Part documentary, part drama, “camp” uses a variety of mediums to explore the emotional reality of those marked with the pink triangle.

Gravity

Wrik Mead

When you wake up and you have so much to do that you just want to go back to bed. The illusion created by shooting the entire film in reverse emphasizes the entire cycle of life.

Haven

Wrik Mead

Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and motion. All this is set to pastoral sounds, sex noises, and a reporter's voice-over about the RCMP’s “fruit box” experiments - official and ludicrous attempts to expose closeted gay men.

How to Clean Your Closet

Wrik Mead

How To Clean Your Closet combines glitched clips from adult films with sound bites from an old tape cassette with the same title. Cleaning your closet couldn't be more fun!

Warm

Wrik Mead

John McLachlin, Steve Marshall

Naked male body meets crumbling brick wall... in an embrace?

Hoolboom

Wrik Mead

Mike Hoolboom, David Archer

"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. With some collaboration from Mike, Wrik has produced a film about the body, self-awareness, and the art of film.

Fruit Machine

Wrik Mead

Mixing fact and fiction, this film tells the story of Dr. F.R. Wake and his bizarre creation, which became known as "the fruit machine." In the 1960s, Wake was hired by the Canadian government to devise a series of tests that would expose homosexuals working in the civil service. This modern retelling reveals that Wake may have had a few secrets of his own.

Hope

Wrik Mead

A short film that looks at the global push back on the civil liberties of the LGBTQ community. A kaleidoscope of anti-gay protests, captured and posted on the internet almost always erupt into violence. From the chaos comes hope, the lasting message of the film and the pursuit for a better future.

Homebelly

Wrik Mead

Donna Evans, Clare Lawlor

Homebelly combines waking dreams with unsettling fragments of this and that. An icy soundscape is set to a live-action animated drama featuring a sleeping body and a persistant rock.

Jesus Saves

Wrik Mead

The political emotions of the butcher shop are discussed within the codes of Catholicism. Purging Catholic guilt, sins of the flesh, and flesh eating. The confessions of a butcher gone astray. An ambiguous layering of images, one is not sure whether the confessor is human or a pig, or if the priest is a butcher.

Deviate

Wrik Mead

“Deviate” is a short Super 8 film made specifically for the Memorial Project. While friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, talk about him, the viewer sees old footage of Dan expressing his feelings on the matter.