Michael V. Smith

Michael V. Smith

História

Michael V. Smith is a queer writer, performer and Associate Professor teaching Creative Writing in the interdisciplinary department of Creative Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, BC. Smith is an MFA grad from UBC’s Creative Writing program (1998).

Perfil

Michael V. Smith

Filmes

The Floating Man
Self
This intimate documentary unpacks Michael V. Smith's journey as a self-described sissy with a body he found humiliating as he developed his art to become a radical drag performer and genderqueer artist. A unique blend of DIY documentary, road trip, performance art, and videopoem, this amusing self-portrait sources Smith's provocative art practice to examine a lifetime of untrue stories about his body. One featured project includes Smith on a road trip on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, searching for famed Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, while dressed as Peanut the Clown.
The Floating Man
Writer
This intimate documentary unpacks Michael V. Smith's journey as a self-described sissy with a body he found humiliating as he developed his art to become a radical drag performer and genderqueer artist. A unique blend of DIY documentary, road trip, performance art, and videopoem, this amusing self-portrait sources Smith's provocative art practice to examine a lifetime of untrue stories about his body. One featured project includes Smith on a road trip on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, searching for famed Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, while dressed as Peanut the Clown.
The Floating Man
Producer
This intimate documentary unpacks Michael V. Smith's journey as a self-described sissy with a body he found humiliating as he developed his art to become a radical drag performer and genderqueer artist. A unique blend of DIY documentary, road trip, performance art, and videopoem, this amusing self-portrait sources Smith's provocative art practice to examine a lifetime of untrue stories about his body. One featured project includes Smith on a road trip on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, searching for famed Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, while dressed as Peanut the Clown.
The Floating Man
Director
This intimate documentary unpacks Michael V. Smith's journey as a self-described sissy with a body he found humiliating as he developed his art to become a radical drag performer and genderqueer artist. A unique blend of DIY documentary, road trip, performance art, and videopoem, this amusing self-portrait sources Smith's provocative art practice to examine a lifetime of untrue stories about his body. One featured project includes Smith on a road trip on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, searching for famed Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, while dressed as Peanut the Clown.
I dream a queer allegory
Director
Check this. We're in a house / deep in the woods. I’m trying / to talk a committee-sized group— / maybe five—into having sex. / Nobody's going for it, / despite wild times before. / Maybe desire is dead?
The Hook Up
Writer
An experimental documentary featuring four gay men from two different generations: two nearing age 70 and two 20-somethings. Striking close-up visuals create a powerful sense of intimacy and connection as the men discuss how hooking up has (and has not) evolved for gay men.
The Hook Up
Director
An experimental documentary featuring four gay men from two different generations: two nearing age 70 and two 20-somethings. Striking close-up visuals create a powerful sense of intimacy and connection as the men discuss how hooking up has (and has not) evolved for gay men.
The Common Fag
Common Fag
Collaborators Kenney and Smith’s cheeky ‘nature doc’ short outlines the being that is ‘the Common Fag,’ on the banks of Okanagan Lake.
The Common Fag
Producer
Collaborators Kenney and Smith’s cheeky ‘nature doc’ short outlines the being that is ‘the Common Fag,’ on the banks of Okanagan Lake.
The Common Fag
Writer
Collaborators Kenney and Smith’s cheeky ‘nature doc’ short outlines the being that is ‘the Common Fag,’ on the banks of Okanagan Lake.
Sissy
Camera Operator
What exactly is a sissy? Sissy explores masculinity, gender identity, misogyny and self-acceptance. A playful exploration of what it means to be a sissy.
Sissy
(voice)
What exactly is a sissy? Sissy explores masculinity, gender identity, misogyny and self-acceptance. A playful exploration of what it means to be a sissy.
Body. Cake. Lake.
Editor
Walking nude along the dusty railroad tracks of life, a woman loves up her Body once she discovers a sweet decorous Cake in her path. She dances to her own whistled tune, then steps into the nearby Lake, frenzied with cake lust. An innocent film, Body. Cake. Lake. celebrates sensuality as gloriously monstrous.
Body. Cake. Lake.
Writer
Walking nude along the dusty railroad tracks of life, a woman loves up her Body once she discovers a sweet decorous Cake in her path. She dances to her own whistled tune, then steps into the nearby Lake, frenzied with cake lust. An innocent film, Body. Cake. Lake. celebrates sensuality as gloriously monstrous.
Body. Cake. Lake.
Director
Walking nude along the dusty railroad tracks of life, a woman loves up her Body once she discovers a sweet decorous Cake in her path. She dances to her own whistled tune, then steps into the nearby Lake, frenzied with cake lust. An innocent film, Body. Cake. Lake. celebrates sensuality as gloriously monstrous.
Invitation
Producer
Continuing his performance-based documentary work, Michael V. Smith has created a confessional nude dance video. Invitation chronicles the artist’s relationship to his body, welcoming the audience to celebrate and bear witness.
Invitation
Writer
Continuing his performance-based documentary work, Michael V. Smith has created a confessional nude dance video. Invitation chronicles the artist’s relationship to his body, welcoming the audience to celebrate and bear witness.
Invitation
Director
Continuing his performance-based documentary work, Michael V. Smith has created a confessional nude dance video. Invitation chronicles the artist’s relationship to his body, welcoming the audience to celebrate and bear witness.
Invitation
Dancer
Continuing his performance-based documentary work, Michael V. Smith has created a confessional nude dance video. Invitation chronicles the artist’s relationship to his body, welcoming the audience to celebrate and bear witness.
Near-Perfect Wedding
Writer
What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?
Near-Perfect Wedding
Producer
What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?
Near-Perfect Wedding
Director of Photography
What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?
Near-Perfect Wedding
Editor
What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?
Near-Perfect Wedding
Director
What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?
Boyfriend
Self / Miss Cookie LaWhore
Footage of Vancouver punk band SKINJOBS performing live at Ms T's.
Wolf Lake
Director of Photography
In a dramatized narrative written and told by Canadian poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, a young woman speaks of her ordeal at Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia make a lush backdrop to her harrowing story of violence and betrayal.
Wolf Lake
Editor
In a dramatized narrative written and told by Canadian poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, a young woman speaks of her ordeal at Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia make a lush backdrop to her harrowing story of violence and betrayal.
Wolf Lake
Director
In a dramatized narrative written and told by Canadian poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, a young woman speaks of her ordeal at Wolf Lake. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia make a lush backdrop to her harrowing story of violence and betrayal.
Pink
Producer
Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.
Pink
Writer
Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.
Pink
Director
Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.
Pink
Self
Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.
Girl on Girl
Producer
In his alter ego as Miss Cookie LaWhore, Canadian novelist Michael V. Smith gives up his hetero-virginity to performance artist and sex worker Amber Dawn. Shot on mini-DV, Girl on Girl is a candid documentary that humanizes sex as it battles the social stigma of being sexual. Touching on hot buttons such as the exploitation of women in the mainstream porn industry, shame and body image, sex phobia, and gender ambiguity, Girl on Girl lays bare our shared fear of being sexual and being seen.
Girl on Girl
Editor
In his alter ego as Miss Cookie LaWhore, Canadian novelist Michael V. Smith gives up his hetero-virginity to performance artist and sex worker Amber Dawn. Shot on mini-DV, Girl on Girl is a candid documentary that humanizes sex as it battles the social stigma of being sexual. Touching on hot buttons such as the exploitation of women in the mainstream porn industry, shame and body image, sex phobia, and gender ambiguity, Girl on Girl lays bare our shared fear of being sexual and being seen.
Girl on Girl
Writer
In his alter ego as Miss Cookie LaWhore, Canadian novelist Michael V. Smith gives up his hetero-virginity to performance artist and sex worker Amber Dawn. Shot on mini-DV, Girl on Girl is a candid documentary that humanizes sex as it battles the social stigma of being sexual. Touching on hot buttons such as the exploitation of women in the mainstream porn industry, shame and body image, sex phobia, and gender ambiguity, Girl on Girl lays bare our shared fear of being sexual and being seen.
Girl on Girl
Director
In his alter ego as Miss Cookie LaWhore, Canadian novelist Michael V. Smith gives up his hetero-virginity to performance artist and sex worker Amber Dawn. Shot on mini-DV, Girl on Girl is a candid documentary that humanizes sex as it battles the social stigma of being sexual. Touching on hot buttons such as the exploitation of women in the mainstream porn industry, shame and body image, sex phobia, and gender ambiguity, Girl on Girl lays bare our shared fear of being sexual and being seen.
Girl on Girl
Miss Cookie LaWhore
In his alter ego as Miss Cookie LaWhore, Canadian novelist Michael V. Smith gives up his hetero-virginity to performance artist and sex worker Amber Dawn. Shot on mini-DV, Girl on Girl is a candid documentary that humanizes sex as it battles the social stigma of being sexual. Touching on hot buttons such as the exploitation of women in the mainstream porn industry, shame and body image, sex phobia, and gender ambiguity, Girl on Girl lays bare our shared fear of being sexual and being seen.
Easy
Producer
A one night stand starts out promisingly enough. But when young urban Cooper gets mistaken for a hustler by his married trick Larry, things take a turn for the worse.
Easy
Writer
A one night stand starts out promisingly enough. But when young urban Cooper gets mistaken for a hustler by his married trick Larry, things take a turn for the worse.