Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce

Born: January 3, 1964
in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada
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.

Movies for Bruce LaBruce...

Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Title: Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
A journey through Swedish queer film history.
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Title: Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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The Second Coming: Volume 2
Title: The Second Coming: Volume 2
Released: December 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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...
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Boris Without Beatrice
Title: Boris Without Beatrice
Character: Premier ministre
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last Days of Joe Blow
Title: The Last Days of Joe Blow
Character: Himself
Released: February 17, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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The Material Boy
Title: The Material Boy
Character: Himself
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
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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Pierrot Lunaire
Title: Pierrot Lunaire
Released: February 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces 'her boyfriend' to her father he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud. Even though, strangely, the feelings of the girl persist without shifting, the father does not allow them to ever see the other again. Furious and delusional the 'boy' develops an adventurous plan to prove his true 'masculinity' to the father of his lover.
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Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
Title: Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
Character: (voice)
Released: June 14, 2012
Type: Movie
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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She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
Title: She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
Character: Himself
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Advocate for Fagdom
Title: The Advocate for Fagdom
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Sagat
Title: Sagat
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Gaze
Title: Gaze
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 2010
Type: Movie
The works of today's most revered talents are set against a provocative, highly amusing commentary track in this celebration of queer art.
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Llik Your Idols
Title: Llik Your Idols
Character: Himself
Released: July 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.
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Title: The House of Venus Show
Character: Self
Released: July 5, 2005
Type: TV
Created by Canadian filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods and co-produced by Michael Venus, the first season of the world's first LGBT themed sketch comedy TV show started airing on OUTtv in July 2005. The second season began airing in September, 2006 and, after a hiatus, a third season debuted in July, 2009. The show also aired on SelecTV/OUTtv in Australia in 2006. Pink TV in France, Belgium, Switzerland and other territories started airing the first 2 seasons of the show with the alternate title "Le Venus Show" in September, 2006. The show began airing in the Netherlands and the Benelux in April, 2008 on OUTTv. here! network in the USA began airing the show in August, 2008. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the sketch comedy show blends politics and pop culture with humour and irreverence.
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I, Curmudgeon
Title: I, Curmudgeon
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Vinyl
Title: Vinyl
Character: Himself
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
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Psycho Path
Title: Psycho Path
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: February 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
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Hustler White
Title: Hustler White
Character: Jürgen Anger
Released: July 19, 1996
Type: Movie
A writer, researching a book on male prostitutes, finds a young man to serve as a guide on the streets of Los Angeles.
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Super 8½
Title: Super 8½
Character: Bruce
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
Title: Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
Character: Fonda
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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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The Yo-Yo Gang
Title: The Yo-Yo Gang
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Amid girl fights, girl on girl sex and boy on boy sex, and a measure of BDSM, the YoYo gang battles the Skateboard Bitches.
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No Skin Off My Ass
Title: No Skin Off My Ass
Character: The Hairdresser
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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The Troublemakers
Title: The Troublemakers
Character: The Punk
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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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Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
Title: Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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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Boy / Girl
Title: Boy / Girl
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
Title: I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A previously unreleased provocation from queer cinema’s outrageous auteur Bruce LaBruce