Bruce LaBruce
Date of birth: 1964-01-03
Place of birth: Tiverton, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Directing
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.
Movie Credits
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2022-02-25
A journey through Swedish queer film history.
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011-11-04
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare arch
Llik Your Idols
2007-07-30
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic
Hayseed
1997-09-17
In this Canadian Candide update, orphan Gordie (Jamie Shannon) lives with his hippie aunts at a quie
Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
2012-06-14
Entangled (hi)stories transform a museum into a sitcom. Storytellers and voices amongst others: Yoko
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
2012-04-27
Documentary about the groundbreaking queer feminist art band Fifth Column, who were at the centre of
Pierrot Lunaire
2014-02-09
Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical the
Hustler White
1996-10-30
Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, the action is transposed from the silver screen's old backlots to c
No Skin Off My Ass
1991-11-08
A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local p
The Second Coming: Volume 2
2016-12-03
The second installment of Australian maverick filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft's adaptation of the poe
The Yo-Yo Gang
1992-01-01
Amid girl fights, girl on girl sex and boy on boy sex, and a measure of BDSM, the YoYo gang battles
The Troublemakers
1990-03-01
The lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumpti
Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
1994-01-01
Fonda LaBruce and Vaginal Davis are a drag queen lesbian couple experiencing bed death. They call in
Super 8½
1994-09-08
A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-m
Vinyl
2000-08-01
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
I, Curmudgeon
2004-05-01
Curmudgeon. Contrarian. Misanthrope. Naysayer. For all the people interviewed in this film, someone
Boy / Girl
1987-01-01
In LaBruce’s first short experimental super 8 film, a loose narrative is constructed out of a variet
Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1988-01-01
Experimental short film depicting the home movies of Bruce Wayne Gacy and Pepper Wayne Gacy, the chi
I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1987-01-01
A previously unreleased provocation from queer cinema’s outrageous auteur Bruce LaBruce
The Material Boy
2015-03-06
An Italo-American teenaged girl in Michigan, with a Catholic family, becomes pregnant. To avoid both
The Last Days of Joe Blow
2016-02-17
Richard Wolstencroft directs this documentary about actor and independent filmmaker Michael Tierney,
Gaze
2010-07-13
The works of today's most revered talents are set against a provocative, highly amusing commentary t
Psycho Path
2000-02-10
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
Sagat
2011-01-03
Go deep inside one of the most recognizable gay porn stars of all time. This exciting doc takes you
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017-06-12
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and w
Boris Without Beatrice
2016-03-04
Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker,
QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)
1997-03-01
The urban on-line dictionary defines queercore as “Gay-themed, underground, independent music; usual
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019-12-14
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelib
Bowels of Hell
2026-02-04
Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grie
Way Down
2005-01-01
Deep dark sick folk on their way down to the bottom.
The Blue Hermaphrodite
A hip and savvy look at sex, sexuality, gender and pop culture.