Bruce LaBruce
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Born | Southampton, Ontario, Canada | January 3, 1964
Occupation(s) | Actor, writer, filmmaker, photographer, underground adult director |
Years active | 1987–present |
Website | brucelabruce |
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964)[1] is a Canadian artist,[2] writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in
He first gained public attention with the publication of the
His movie,
In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of
Beginning with Gerontophilia in 2013, LaBruce dropped some of the more sexually explicit aspects of his filmmaking style. He retained his traditional interest in exploring sexual taboos, dramatizing an intergenerational relationship between a young man and a senior citizen, but opted to do so within a film that would be more palatable to a mainstream audience.[9]
In 2018, LaBruce directed the short film Scotch Egg as part of Erika Lust's XConfessions series. The short is about a Scottish gay man who has sex with a woman in a gay bar. LaBruce was inspired to create the film after reading a confession sent to XConfessions by a heterosexual woman who fantasized about going to a gay bar and having sex with a homosexual man.[10][11][12]
His short film collection It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse... was released in 2018. The title refers to Rosa von Praunheim's film It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971).[13]
In 2024, his film The Visitor was selected in the Panorama section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival where it premiered February 17.[14]
Themes and style
According to Courtney Fathom Sell of South Coast Today, some of his films explore themes of sexual and interpersonal transgression against cultural norms, frequently blending the artistic and production techniques of independent film with gay pornography.[15]
LaBruce's filmmaking style is marked by a blend of explicitly
He has frequently been identified with the
Filmography
Feature films
- No Skin Off My Ass (1991)
- Super 8½ (1994)
- Hustler White (1996), co-directed & written with Rick 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)
- The Misandrists (2017)
- Ulrike's Brain (2017)
- It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... (2018) for CockyBoysstudio
- Saint-Narcisse (2020)
- The Affairs of Lidia (2022)
- The Visitor (2024)
Short films
- Boy, Girl (1987)
- I Know What It's Like to Be Dead (1987)
- Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's 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)
- Défense de fumer (2014)
- Refugee's Welcome (2017)
- Scotch Egg (2018)
- Valentin, Pierre and Catalina (2018)
Books
- Ride Queer, Ride (1996)
- The Reluctant Pornographer (1997)[1]
Awards
- 2019: XBIZ Award – Gay Director of the Year[18]
References
- ^ a b c "Arts: Bruce LaBruce". Archived from the original on October 26, 2004.
- ^ "A Timeline of Photographer Bruce LaBruce's Erotic Career". Paper. February 18, 2018.
- ^ Gayle MacDonald (July 22, 2010). "Australians won't see zombies having sex". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ^ "Filmmaker's series critiques gay sensibilities". Toronto Star, November 1999.
- The Advocate. p. 75. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- ABC News, July 21, 2010.
- ^ "Bruce LaBruce zombie film banned in Australia". CBC News. July 21, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ^ Michael Ladner. "Bruce LaBruce and Item Idem at the Opera". Butt, March 10, 2011.
- Huffington Post, December 19, 2012. (in French)
- ^ ""Are you a good boy?" – Scotch Egg by Bruce LaBruce now on XConfessions!". Erika Lust. Archived from the original on August 12, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
- ^ "Scotch Porn". The Wee Review. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
- ^ "PORNOTOPIA: Adult sex film fest comes to Toronto a second time!". Toronto Sun. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
- ^ "It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse..." TOP Kino. Retrieved December 5, 2021.
- ^ "The Panorama strand of the Berlinale to open with Levan Akin's Crossing". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. January 17, 2024. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
- South Coast Today, February 27, 2008.
- ^ a b c d "Bruce LaBruce: There Is a Certain Romance to It". L.A. Record, June 26, 2009.
- ^ Dave Croyle (2014). "Sexual Revolution, Bruce LaBruce". Gay Essential. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
- ^ XBIZ Award Winners, XBIZ, January 2019
External links
- Official website
- Bruce LaBruce at IMDb