John Greyson

John Greyson is a film and video artist whose Charles St. tapes include: The Kipling Trilogy, Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers, After the Bath, You Taste American, and the experimental featureUrinal. He's also made four other features: The Law of Enclosures, Uncut, Lilies, Zero Patience, and the featurette The Making of Monsters. Currently Greyson is working on Proteus, which was shot on PAL digital video in September and October in South Africa, and is now in post-production at Charles Street Video. John co-wrote and co-directed Proteus, with South African activist and filmmaker Jack Lewis. The film is based on court transcripts from the 1735 trail of Claas Blank, a Khoe herder, and Rijkhaart Jacobsz, a Dutch sailor, discovered by Lewis in 1998. Add to the mix a Scottish botanist named Virgil Niven, who is in love with Blank, to create a tangled web of representation, love, law, and desire. In this interview, Greyson discusses shooting the film, its themes, and the constitution of a homosexual subject.

 23 September 2003