[1] His films include Hey, Happy!, Stryker, Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight and To Russia with Love.
Gonick's first film was the 1997 short 1919, a historically revisionist depiction of the Winnipeg General Strike from the window of a gay Oriental bathhouse.
[8] In its subsequent Canadian theatrical release, it was screened with Guy Maddin's short film The Heart of the World.
[9] In the early 2000s, Gonick directed a number of episodes of Canadian documentary television series KinK,[10] before releasing his second feature film Stryker in 2004.
[16] Precious Blood (2007), commissioned by the Ontario College of Art and Design, was a video of interviews with girlfriends and friends of inmates on the façade a scale model of the Provincial Remand Centre in Winnipeg.
[18] No Safe Words (2009) is a multi-channel video installation uses sports broadcasts to examine athletic stadiums as sites of violence.
Gonick and Bernie Miller collaborated on Bloody Saturday, a public monument in Winnipeg commemorating the 1919 general strike which was unveiled in 2019.