Directing

Joseph Wilson

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Joseph Wilson is a queer artist and drag performer, living amongst the eclectic East London community. His work explores LGBTQ+ narratives, taking inspiration from his own lived experiences as well as documenting the people and places around him, amplifying their voices and celebrating their stories through his art.

Known for

IL-WIDNA poster
NR

A dystopic future reimagines the impact of Thatcher's section 28 on queer people.

IL-WIDNA

2019

I Love You in Different Ways poster
9.0

Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

I Love You in Different Ways

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Lua poster
NR

Joseph Wilson meets the dance teacher fighting transphobic violence through voguing in Rio’s favelas.

Lua

2024

I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet poster
1.0

A nightmare in reverie: five young queer people are admitted into a clinic to undergo conversion therapy. Enduring several different and harrowing methods to change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the sterile space of abject trauma struggles to suppress the abundance and beauty of queer love. Striking images burst through like a new Un chant d'amour (1975).

I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet

2023

Isn’t It a Beautiful World poster
NR

A short film that depicts the traumatising stories of queer performers Soroya, Harry & Kenya, who through lip-syncing, explore themes of loneliness, anxiety, trauma and recovery, all common issues within the LGBT+ community.

Isn’t It a Beautiful World

2021

No artwork available
NR

A hangover dance and an allegory of a tough queer existence. Aesthetic shots of a male body amid deserted, neglected surroundings, where the well-honed torso contrasts with an expression of decay. A voyeuristic, yet also intimate experience, as exhilarating as a party, and as exhausting as the morning after.

Licking Wounds

2023

Behind the camera

IL-WIDNA poster
NR

A dystopic future reimagines the impact of Thatcher's section 28 on queer people.

IL-WIDNA

2019

IL-WIDNA poster
NR

A dystopic future reimagines the impact of Thatcher's section 28 on queer people.

IL-WIDNA

2019

I Love You in Different Ways poster
9.0

Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

I Love You in Different Ways

—

I Love You in Different Ways poster
9.0

Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

I Love You in Different Ways

—

Lua poster
NR

Joseph Wilson meets the dance teacher fighting transphobic violence through voguing in Rio’s favelas.

Lua

2024

I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet poster
1.0

A nightmare in reverie: five young queer people are admitted into a clinic to undergo conversion therapy. Enduring several different and harrowing methods to change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the sterile space of abject trauma struggles to suppress the abundance and beauty of queer love. Striking images burst through like a new Un chant d'amour (1975).

I Can See the Sun But I Can't Feel It Yet

2023

Isn’t It a Beautiful World poster
NR

A short film that depicts the traumatising stories of queer performers Soroya, Harry & Kenya, who through lip-syncing, explore themes of loneliness, anxiety, trauma and recovery, all common issues within the LGBT+ community.

Isn’t It a Beautiful World

2021

Isn’t It a Beautiful World poster
NR

A short film that depicts the traumatising stories of queer performers Soroya, Harry & Kenya, who through lip-syncing, explore themes of loneliness, anxiety, trauma and recovery, all common issues within the LGBT+ community.

Isn’t It a Beautiful World

2021

No artwork available
NR

A hangover dance and an allegory of a tough queer existence. Aesthetic shots of a male body amid deserted, neglected surroundings, where the well-honed torso contrasts with an expression of decay. A voyeuristic, yet also intimate experience, as exhilarating as a party, and as exhausting as the morning after.

Licking Wounds

2023

No artwork available
NR

A hangover dance and an allegory of a tough queer existence. Aesthetic shots of a male body amid deserted, neglected surroundings, where the well-honed torso contrasts with an expression of decay. A voyeuristic, yet also intimate experience, as exhilarating as a party, and as exhausting as the morning after.

Licking Wounds

2023

Stance poster
NR

Stance... drag queen boxing, drag queen endurance, drag is a non-contact sport, so it's a kind of parody, no pain, no glory... the courage to be yourself and to appropriate typically masculine spaces with cheerfulness and femininity.

Stance

2015

Always Show Courage When Burning to the Ground poster
NR

God awakens an old gay sauna in search of Venus, a Roman Goddess, hoping to try and save the world from climate change. The film was influenced by Jorge Donn's 1982 Bolero, mimicking its repetitive choreography and its enchanting score.

Always Show Courage When Burning to the Ground

2024

Love Bailey: The Manifesto of the Scarlet Woman poster
NR

A portrait of queer trans superstar, Love Bailey.

Love Bailey: The Manifesto of the Scarlet Woman

2018

You Make Me Weak at the Knees poster
NR

A confessional portrait of the highs and lows of open relationships A war between the body and mind wages on in this visual narrative of a couple's attempt to navigate their polyamorous relationship.

You Make Me Weak at the Knees

2020

You Make Me Weak at the Knees poster
NR

A confessional portrait of the highs and lows of open relationships A war between the body and mind wages on in this visual narrative of a couple's attempt to navigate their polyamorous relationship.

You Make Me Weak at the Knees

2020

Drag is my Ecstasy poster
NR

Drag Is My Ecstasy explores the lives of three young men, in and out of drag.

Drag is my Ecstasy

2014