Wrik Mead Movies

"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom....

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...

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

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

"Broken Relationship" moves through a kaleidoscope of colour and pixels to fragments of embraced bodies. Using glitched video footage from classic...

A short film that touches on sexual orientation, homophobia and acceptance. An animated figure swings at the viewer while a robotic voice whispers so...

In this quintessential 'coming out' film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his...

A master drags out his slave and attempts to control him. Things go terribly wrong. Every touch of the slave produces a distortion that encompasses...

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

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...

Toybox combines creepiness and playfulness in a series of animations that manipulate the most misused toy of all - the penis. Stripped of eros and...

Begins with a celestial introduction, leading into an otherworldly, sensuous, glamorous journey through the glimmering bodily landscapes of two drag...

Beware takes sound bites from the 1961 anti-homosexual propaganda film Boys Beware and flips it on its head. The hacked-up narration serves as the...

Based on real-life experiences, “camp” recounts the stories of homosexual survivors of the WWII concentration camps. A series of short,...

This film is based on one year in the filmmaker's fractured life. Rotoscoped figures are layered with stills and live video footage to create an open...

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

Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one...

Two animated male figures are drawn together and pulled away until they fall into a pit of protesters. Then, a frightened look quickly disappears...

Making use of a dizzying array of anti-gay protest footage captured and posted on the internet, Mead’s protagonist bears witness to the...

Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the...