Michael V. Smith

Footage of Vancouver punk band SKINJOBS performing live at Ms T's.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What does it take to make the perfect trans lesbian interfaith Jewish wedding?

Collaborators Kenney and Smith’s cheeky ‘nature doc’ short outlines the being that is ‘the Common Fag,’ on the banks of Okanagan Lake.