Fireworks Logo

Latest Shorts...

  • Colour Blue (The)
  • Gold and Mud
  • Their Everywhere
  • Beautiful Form to See (A)
  • I Hope He Doesn't Kill Me.
  • Until Today
  • Where We Stay
  • Niloo
  • 11:01
  • Never Kill a Femboy on the First Date
  • Mami
  • Kasbi
  • Boys in the Water
  • Shortest Day, Longest Night
  • Romance Package for Two
  • Their Universe
  • Lonely Country
  • Rebound
  • Gold Fish
  • One Night
  • Mouiller
  • Nobody's Home
  • Larry in the Sky with Diamonds
  • It's a Match
  • EKG
  • Polywood
  • Shafted
  • Naked Men in the Woods
  • Scum Boy
  • Afadia
  • Corona-Man
  • Curses feat. Jennifer Touch: Boundless
  • Pooh Bear
  • Pallbearer
  • Pink Trumpets
  • Yes, No, Goodbye
  • Mirror Party
  • 8 Minutes 20 Seconds
  • Dead Cat Film
  • Super Sophie vs Dr. Broccoli

Weeping Shriner

Country: Canada, Language: English, 16 mins

  • Director: William Preston Robertson
  • Writer: William Preston Robertson
  • Producer: Karen Severin

CGiii Comment

A grieving, emotionally repressed lounge pianist becomes burdened with an elderly shriner (and earlier lounge patron) in the throes of an inconsolable crying jag, and thereby comes to terms with his own sadness.


Watch...

Weeping Shriner (1999) from William Preston Robertson on Vimeo.

Cast & Characters

Geoffrey Lower as Lance Thornton;
Bob Larkin as Frail Shriner;
James Leland Adams as Bartender;
Tom Finnegan as Stocky shriner;
Lori Heuring as Young woman;
Ken Sawyer as Lance Thornton's partner