Pissoir (film)

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| name = Pissoir

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| director = John Greyson

| producer = John Greyson

| writer = John Greyson

| starring = {{Plainlist|

• Paul Bettis
• Pauline Carey
• Keltie Creed
• Lance Eng}}

| music = Glenn Schellenberg

| cinematography = {{Plainlist|

• John Greyson
• Adam Swica}}

| editing = {{Plainlist|

• John Greyson
• David McIntosh}}

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| released = {{Film date|1988}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

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Pissoir, retitled Urinal in some countries, was the first feature film directed and released by John Greyson.Paul Irish, "Filmmaker combines life with art". Toronto Star, June 18, 2009. 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,{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/urinal |title=Urinal |last=M |first=P |work=TimeOut.com |publisher=Time Out Group Plc |date= 10 September 2012|access-date=2018-08-16 }} 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.Jay Scott, "From the strange to the sensational and back". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 1988.

The film's cast includes Paul Bettis, Pauline Carey, Lance Eng, and Olivia Rojas.{{Citation |title=Urinal - Mubi |url=https://mubi.com/films/urinal |language=en |access-date=2022-10-13}}

The film premiered at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival in 1989,David Overbey, "Canadian movies and makers the shakers of Berlin festival". Toronto Star, February 21, 1989. where it won a Teddy Award for Best Essay Film.{{cite press release|date=February 2009|url=http://www.teddyaward.org/doc/teddy_winner_en.pdf|title=Queer Film Award at the International Film Festival Berlin|first=Mabel|last=Aschenneller|publisher=Teddy Award. Berlin International Film Festival|access-date=28 July 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317183014/http://www.teddyaward.org/doc/teddy_winner_en.pdf|archive-date=17 March 2012|edition=Digital}}