Michael V. Smith
2021Invitation
Michael V. Smith
Michael V. Smith
Continuing his performance-based documentary work, Michael V. Smith has created a confessional nude dance video. Invitation chronicles the artist’s relationship to his body, welcoming the audience to celebrate and bear witness.
Invitation
Girl on Girl
Amber Dawn, Lisa G. Nielsen
Michael V. Smith, Amber Dawn
In his alter ego as Miss Cookie LaWhore, Canadian novelist Michael V. Smith gives up his hetero-virginity to performance artist and sex worker Amber Dawn. Shot on mini-DV, Girl on Girl is a candid documentary that humanizes sex as it battles the social stigma of being sexual. Touching on hot buttons such as the exploitation of women in the mainstream porn industry, shame and body image, sex phobia, and gender ambiguity, Girl on Girl lays bare our shared fear of being sexual and being seen.
Girl on Girl
The Hook Up
Michael V. Smith
Otto Chan, Josh Gradilone
An experimental documentary featuring four gay men from two different generations: two nearing age 70 and two 20-somethings. Striking close-up visuals create a powerful sense of intimacy and connection as the men discuss how hooking up has (and has not) evolved for gay men.
The Hook Up
Body. Cake. Lake.
Michael V. Smith
Julia Prud'homme
Walking nude along the dusty railroad tracks of life, a woman loves up her Body once she discovers a sweet decorous Cake in her path. She dances to her own whistled tune, then steps into the nearby Lake, frenzied with cake lust. An innocent film, Body. Cake. Lake. celebrates sensuality as gloriously monstrous.
Body. Cake. Lake.
Wolf Lake
Michael V. Smith
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Amber Dawn
In a dramatized narrative written and told by Canadian poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, a young woman speaks of her ordeal at Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia make a lush backdrop to her harrowing story of violence and betrayal.
Wolf Lake
