Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964)[1] is a Canadianwriter, lmmaker, photographer and underground adultdirector based in Toronto, Ontario. His lms ex-plore themes of sexual and interpersonal transgressionagainst cultural norms, frequently blending the artisticand production techniques of independent lm with gaypornography.[2]

1 Life and career

LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario.[3] He has claimedboth Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as his birth namein dierent sources.[4] He studied lm at York Universityin Toronto and wrote for Cineactionmagazine, curated byRobin Wood, his teacher.He rst gained public attention with the publication ofthe queer punk zine J.D.s, which he co-edited with G.B.Jones.[1] He currently writes and photographs for a varietyof publications includingVice, Nerve.com andBlackBookmagazine, and has also previously been a columnist forthe Canadian music magazine Exclaim! and Torontoseye weekly, as well as a contributing editor and pho-tographer for New Yorks index magazine. He has alsobeen published in Toronto Life, the National Post and TheGuardian.His lmmaking style is marked by a blend of explicitlypornographic depictions of sex with more conventionalnarrative and lmmaking techniques, as well as an interestin extreme topics which mainstream audiences might dis-miss as shocking or disturbing taboos.[5] For instance, hislms have depicted scenes of sexual fetish and paraphilia,BDSM, gang rape, racially-motivated violence, amputeefetishism, male and female prostitution, and zombie andvampire sexuality.[5] He has frequently been identiedwith the subversive New Queer Cinema movement thatemerged in the 1990s,[5] although at the height of thatmovements prominence he rejected the association onthe grounds that he felt more personally aligned with thequeercore movement.[5] The queercore movement wasborn in the 1980s and LaBruce was one of the fathers.Noted as the avant-garde and unapologetic gay answer tothe punk movement, queercore expressed the very samediscontent with society as the punks were stating.[6]

His movie, Otto, or, Up With Dead People debuted atthe 2008 Sundance Film Festival. L.A. Zombie wasbanned from the Melbourne International Film Festivalin 2010 because, in the opinion of Australian censors,

it would have been refused classication. However, thelm was subsequently able to screen at OutTakes, a NewZealand lesbian and gay international lm festival, in May2011.[7][8]

In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance ofArnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbelam Ufer Theatre in Berlin. This iteration of the opera in-cluded gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, aswell as a female to male transgender Pierrot.[9] He subse-quently also lmed this adaptation as the 2014 theatricallm Pierrot Lunaire.Beginning with Gerontophilia in 2013, LaBruce droppedsome of themore sexually explicit aspects of his lmmak-ing style. He retained his traditional interest in exploringsexual taboos, dramatizing an intergenerational relation-ship between a young man and a senior citizen, but optedto do so within a lm that would be more palatable to amainstream audience.[10]

2 Filmography

2.1 Short lms Boy, Girl (1987) I Know What Its Like to Be Dead (1987) Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacys Home Movies(1988), co-directed with Candy Parker

A Case for the Closet (1992) The Post Queer Tour (1992) Slam! (1992) Come As You Are (2000) Give Piece of Ass a Chance (2007) The Bad Breast, or The Case of Theda Lange (2010) Weekend in Alphaville (2010)

2.2 Feature lms No Skin O My Ass (1993) Super 8 (1994)

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Hustler White (1996), co-directed & written withRick Castro

Skin Flick / Skin Gang (1999) The Raspberry Reich (2004) Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) L.A. Zombie (2010) Gerontophilia (2013) Pierrot Lunaire (2014) Ulrikes Brain (TBA)

3 Books The Reluctant Pornographer (1997)[1]

Ride Queer, Ride

4 References[1] Arts: Bruce LaBruce on glbtq.com

[2] Punched in the Nose: An Interview with FilmmakerBruce LaBruce. South Coast Today, February 27, 2008.

[3] gayle macdonald (2010-07-22). Australians wont seezombies having sex. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved2012-01-12.

[4] Filmmakers series critiques gay sensibilities. TorontoStar, November 1999.

[5] Bruce LaBruce: There Is a Certain Romance to It. L.A.Record, June 26, 2009.

[6] Dave Croyle (2014). Sexual Revolution, BruceLaBruce. Gay Essential. Retrieved 10 December 2014.

[7] Festival zombie porn ick banned. ABC News, July 21,2010.

[8] Bruce LaBruce zombie lm banned in Australia. CBCNews. 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2012-01-12.

[9] Michael Ladner. Bruce LaBruce and Item Idem at theOpera. Butt, March 10, 2011.

[10] Marie-Hlne Thibault et Pier-Gabriel Lajoie dansGerontophilia, un lm deBruce LaBruce tourn Mon-tral. Hungton Post, December 19, 2012. (French)

5 External links BruceLaBruce.com Bruce LaBruce at the Internet Movie Database

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