Bruce LaBruce
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.
Acting (23 movies)
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2022
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
Llik Your Idols
2007
Hayseed
1997
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
2012
Pierrot Lunaire
2014
Hustler White
1996
No Skin Off My Ass
1991
The Troublemakers
1990
The Yo-Yo Gang
1992
Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
1994
Super 8½
1994
Vinyl
2000
Boy / Girl
1987
I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1987
The Material Boy
2015
Gaze
2010
Psycho Path
2000
Sagat
2011
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017
Boris Without Beatrice
2016
QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)
1997
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Directing (38 movies)
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2008
The Raspberry Reich
2004
No Skin Off My Ass
1991
Hustler White
1996
The Affairs of Lidia
2022
Super 8½
1994
Slam!
1992
The Visitor
2024
Fucking Different XXX
2012
Sodomise Me
2017
Pierrot Lunaire
2014
Gerontophilia
2013
Skin Flick
1999
L.A. Zombie
2010
Frankfurt Stories
1999
Défense de fumer
2014
The Misandrists
2017
Ulrike's Brain
2017
Refugee's Welcome
2017
XConfessions 9
2017
Weekend in Alphaville
2010
Uber Menschen
2018
It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse...
2018
XConfessions 14
2018
XConfessions 15
2018
Give Piece of Ass a Chance
2007
Boy / Girl
1987
The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010
I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1987
Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1988
Saint-Narcisse
2021
Offing Jack
2011
Valentin, Pierre & Catalina
2018
Tom of Finland
2020
Scotch Egg
2018
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Egg
2026
Flea Pit
2018