Wrik Mead Movies

Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and...

The curtains are drawn, a clown stands in the spotlight, the reception is dismal. Before s/he can even begin to perform, debilitating fear takes...

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

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

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...

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...

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

The political emotions of the butcher shop are discussed within the codes of Catholicism. Purging Catholic guilt, sins of the flesh, and flesh...

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...

When you wake up and you have so much to do that you just want to go back to bed. The illusion created by shooting the entire film in reverse...

Through pixilation a male centerfold attempts to embellish his features only to take on more than he can handle.

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and...

An experimental film that merges Super 8 and 16mm formats to examine the presence of queer intimacy. At its center are two shirtless men, locked in...

Mixing fact and fiction, this film tells the story of Dr. F.R. Wake and his bizarre creation, which became known as "the fruit machine." In the...

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...

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...

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

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

“Deviate” is a short Super 8 film made specifically for the Memorial Project. While friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, talk...

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