UNAUTHORIZED AMPLIFICATION DEVICES: Queer BDS works by John Greyson 2004-2025

UNAUTHORIZED AMPLIFICATION DEVICES

John Greyson: Queer BDS Films (2004-2025)

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, University of Toronto

QUEER BDS SHORTS       7pm   

From Queers Against Israeli Apartheid to Queer Cinema for Palestine, ten split screen culture-jamming shorts, selected from 20 years of making work for queer BDS 

PHOTO BOOTH                8:45pm

Opera-Documentary (2022, 99 min) with Ghadir Shafie, Omar Barghouti, Ali Abunimah, Jasbir Puar, Haneen Maikey & Judith Butler. Starring John Gilbert, Alexander Chapman, Steven Chen.

A hybrid feature film about two decades of Queer BDS, locally and globally

Protesting the 2021 siege of Gaza, Jean Genet stages a guerilla intervention at Eurovision in Jericho, collaborating with Palestinian video hacktivists and two naked gay penguins

Presented in support of Greyson’s Phd Dissertation, “Unauthorized Amplification Devices: Queer Bodies, Queer Screens and the Cultural Boycott of Israel,” University of Toronto 2025 Co-presented by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Vital Transgressions and Sensorium at York U