Bruce LaBruce
Also Known As: Bruce La Bruce, Justin Stewart, Jürgen Anger
Biography: Bruce LaBruce is an internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist based in Toronto. Along with a number of short films, he has written and directed nine feature films, including Gerontophilia, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in 2013, and Pierrot Lunaire, which won the Teddy Award Special Jury Prize at the Berlinale in 2014. Most recently, LaBruce has been honoured with film retrospectives at both TIFF/Bell Lightbox 2014, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 2015. The MoMA retrospective featured all nine of LaBruce’s features as well as a program of short films. All of the films have now become part of MoMA’s permanent film collection. 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tiverton, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: January 03, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Overview: A journey through Swedish queer film history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-02-25
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The Advocate for Fagdom
Overview: The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Llik Your Idols
Overview: Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Hayseed
Overview: In this Canadian Candide update, orphan Gordie (Jamie Shannon) lives with his hippie aunts at a quiet Porridge Glenn farm. When his beagle Speedoh is lost, a call from a psychic suggests a search in Toronto, where hayseed meets hooker wannabe Heidi (Sarain Boylan). She introduces him to two past-porn performers (Shelly Mars, Scott Thompson), the former stars of "Who's Afraid of Vagina Woolf?" Hick Gordie seems destined for street hustling and boogie nights after encountering a gay band that raises AIDS-research money by selling Gordie off to a sleazeball pimp (Alex Karzis). At this juncture, however, Heidi hatches a plan to reunite Gordie and Speedoh.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
Overview: Entangled (hi)stories transform a museum into a sitcom. Storytellers and voices amongst others: Yoko Ono, Tris Vonna-Michell & Bruce LaBruce as well as Maurizio Cattelan's horse coming to life and triggering further events.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-14
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She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
Overview: Documentary about the groundbreaking queer feminist art band Fifth Column, who were at the centre of Toronto’s influential Queercore scene in the 1980-90s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Pierrot Lunaire
Overview: Pierrot Lunaire is a Canadian/German film, which premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. Written and directed by Bruce LaBruce as an adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, the film adds a transgender interpretation to the work, starring Susanne Sachsse as a trans man Pierrot.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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Hustler White
Overview: A writer, researching a book on male prostitutes, finds a young man to serve as a guide on the streets of Los Angeles.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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No Skin Off My Ass
Overview: A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who's making a film called "Sisters of the SLA." He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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The Second Coming: Volume 2
Overview: The second installment of Australian maverick filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft's adaptation of the poem by W.B. Yeats continues to delve into the underbelly of occultism, physics, and political paranoia, as it travels over multiple continents, and across the lives of an eclectic group of characters, none of whom will remain unscathed from the impending apocalypse... and some of whom work to hasten the arrival of the chaos...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-03
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The Troublemakers
Overview: The Troublemakers follows the lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumption, they struggle to survive outside of society, fashioning their own aesthetics of poverty and devising strategies to navigate a surveillance society, evading or performing for cameras everywhere.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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The Yo-Yo Gang
Overview: Amid girl fights, girl on girl sex and boy on boy sex, and a measure of BDSM, the YoYo gang battles the Skateboard Bitches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
Overview: Fonda LaBruce and Vaginal Davis are a drag queen lesbian couple experiencing bed death. They call in therapist (Dr. Chris Teen) to help them get out of their sexual rut.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Super 8½
Overview: A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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I, Curmudgeon
Overview: Curmudgeon. Contrarian. Misanthrope. Naysayer. For all the people interviewed in this film, someone has used one of the above words to describe them. What have they done to deserve such labels? Everywhere these men and women go, something is being celebrated; they don’t get what all the celebration is about and they’re compelled to question it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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Vinyl
Overview: Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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Boy / Girl
Overview: In LaBruce’s first short experimental super 8 film, a loose narrative is constructed out of a variety of film clips, some shot on location by the filmmaker, some found footage, and some shot off the television screen. A woman with long red hair (G.B. Jones) sits on a window sill and looks down with her binoculars at the street below. Meanwhile, Mary Tyler Moore escapes from an aggressive man and runs to the park. Boy/Girl is a documentation of a period of time when filmmaker LaBruce lived in a crummy, squat-like building at Queen and Parliament Streets in Toronto with the all-girl punk band, Fifth Column.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
Overview: Experimental short film depicting the home movies of Bruce Wayne Gacy and Pepper Wayne Gacy, the children of the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
Overview: A previously unreleased provocation from queer cinema’s outrageous auteur Bruce LaBruce
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Last Days of Joe Blow
Overview: Richard Wolstencroft directs this documentary about actor and independent filmmaker Michael Tierney, his transformation into porn actor Joe Blow, and his last days in the industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-17
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The Material Boy
Overview: An Italo-American teenaged girl in Michigan, with a Catholic family, becomes pregnant. To avoid both a scandal and an abortion, she secretly gives birth to a boy in hospital, which is run by nuns. They establish a false identity for him and arrange to have him brought up in Argentina. At the age of 18, the boy discovers that his biological mother is Madonna Ciccone, who, after giving him up, became the iconic international pop-culture mega-star.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Gaze
Overview: The works of today's most revered talents are set against a provocative, highly amusing commentary track in this celebration of queer art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-13
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Psycho Path
Overview: Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-10
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Sagat
Overview: Go deep inside one of the most recognizable gay porn stars of all time. This exciting doc takes you behind-the-scenes to get a glimpse at the real life of François Sagat.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-03
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Overview: A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-12
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Boris Without Beatrice
Overview: Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)
Overview: The urban on-line dictionary defines queercore as “Gay-themed, underground, independent music; usually punk rock (Team Dresch, Pansy Division, The Butchies, The Need, etc.)”. See for yourself.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-01
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30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Overview: Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-14
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