Wrik Mead

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Wrik Mead

Biography

Known internationally for his short animations that follow the smoke of Genet's "Un chant d'amour" through endless poetic circles and spirals of desire, Mead's corpus signifies the resilience and seduction of queer culture as it navigates the gaps in mainstream culture. Mead received his MA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. He currently lives in Toronto and teaches in the Digital Painting and Expanded Animation specialization at OCAD University.

Known For

Director

Out

as Director

2024
Beware

as Director

2021
Wave

as Director

2021
2020
Hope

as Director

2020
2017
Outcognito

as Director

2016
Summer 1975

as Director

2016
=

as Director

2011
I'm Not in Love

as Director

2010
Winter’s End

as Director

2009
Boy

as Director

2008
Bare

as Director

2008
Toybox

as Director

2008
Ache

as Director

2004
Filth

as Director

2003
Grotesque

as Director

2002
Manipulator

as Director

2001
Hand Job

as Director

2000
Camp

as Director

1999
Stage Fright

as Director

1999
Hoolboom

as Director

1998
Cupid

as Director

1998
Fruit Machine

as Director

1997
Guise

as Director

1996
Frostbite

as Director

1995
Closet Case

as Director

1995
(ab)NORMAL

as Director

1994
Homebelly

as Director

1992
Warm

as Director

1992
Haven

as Director

1992
Deviate

as Director

1988
Jesus Saves

as Director

1987
1987
Gravity

as Director

Writer

2016
Summer 1975

as Writer

2008
Bare

as Writer

2008
Toybox

as Writer

1999
Hoolboom

as Writer

Sound

1995
(ab)NORMAL

as Sound

Camera

1995
(ab)NORMAL

as Additional Photography