Curiously transported to the present-day, a group of dead artists, including Sergei Eisenstein, Frida Kahlo, Langston Hughes and Yukio Mishima, find themselves guests in the home of Toronto sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. They have been mysteriously summoned to Ontario to research the systematic policing of public-washroom sex. These artists of wildly differing temperaments embark upon their research with flamboyance and aplomb, examining not only the subject at hand, but their own sexual identities. Each night, one of the six-joined by Wilde man Dorian Gray-delivers a riotous lecture on some aspect of the issue. Toronto artist Greyson's audacious film, which could be subtitled "If Only Heads Could Talk," makes a shambles of filmic expectations. The lectures themselves-"A Social History of the Public Washroom" one night, "Washroom Sex Texts" the next-are mini-parodies, taking some facet of film discourse and knocking it off kilter. But in Urinal, the formal is firmly embraced by a fiery brand of political urgency. With an irreverence for historical propriety, and a story structure that doesn't discriminate between burlesque, surrealist tableau and bitter fact, Greyson employs a mad pastiche to confound straight narrative. While our esteemed artists are busy with the surveillance of sexuality, Urinal itself flushes film convention down the drain. Steve Seid Presented in association with Frameline and the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.