Bruce LaBruce
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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0 |
| Birthday | 1964-01-03 |
| Place of Birth | Tiverton, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As | Bruce La Bruce, Justin Stewart, Jürgen Anger, |
2022
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
6/8
A journey through Swedish queer film history.
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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2011
The Advocate for Fagdom
5.3/3
The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts th...
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The Advocate for Fagdom
2007
Llik Your Idols
4/6
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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Llik Your Idols
1997
Hayseed
3.667/3
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...
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Hayseed
2012
Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
0/0
Entangled (hi)stories transform a museum into a sitcom. Storytellers and voices amongst others: Yoko Ono, Tris Vonna-Michell & Bruce LaBruce as well a...
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Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
2012
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
10/1
Documentary about the groundbreaking queer feminist art band Fifth Column, who were at the centre of Toronto’s influential Queercore scene in the 1980...
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She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
2014
Pierrot Lunaire
5.3/9
Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert G...
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Pierrot Lunaire
1996
Hustler White
5.303/38
Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, the action is transposed from the silver screen's old backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the pornographic...
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Hustler White
1991
No Skin Off My Ass
6.577/13
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 apart...
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No Skin Off My Ass
2016
The Second Coming: Volume 2
0/0
The second installment of Australian maverick filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft's adaptation of the poem by W.B. Yeats continues to delve into the underb...
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The Second Coming: Volume 2
1990
The Troublemakers
7/1
The lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumption, they struggle to survive outside of society, f...
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The Troublemakers
1992
The Yo-Yo Gang
2.875/4
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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The Yo-Yo Gang
1994
Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
0/0
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 o...
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Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
1994
Super 8½
5.962/13
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 b...
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Super 8½
2004
I, Curmudgeon
7.25/4
Curmudgeon. Contrarian. Misanthrope. Naysayer. For all the people interviewed in this film, someone has used one of the above words to describe them....
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I, Curmudgeon
2000
Vinyl
7.381/21
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
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Vinyl
1987
Boy / Girl
5.5/2
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 film...
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Boy / Girl
1988
Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
5/2
Experimental short film depicting the home movies of Bruce Wayne Gacy and Pepper Wayne Gacy, the children of the notorious serial killer John Wayne Ga...
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Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1987
I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
5/2
A previously unreleased provocation from queer cinema’s outrageous auteur Bruce LaBruce
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I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
2016
The Last Days of Joe Blow
2/2
Richard Wolstencroft directs this documentary about actor and independent filmmaker Michael Tierney, his transformation into porn actor Joe Blow, and...
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The Last Days of Joe Blow
2015
The Material Boy
0/0
An Italo-American teenaged girl in Michigan, with a Catholic family, becomes pregnant. To avoid both a scandal and an abortion, she secretly gives bir...
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The Material Boy
2010
Gaze
1/2
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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Gaze
2000
Psycho Path
7.25/4
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
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Psycho Path
2011
Sagat
2/2
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 lif...
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Sagat
2017
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
7/14
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...
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2016
Boris Without Beatrice
6.5/12
Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain...
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Boris Without Beatrice
1997
QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)
3.333/3
The urban on-line dictionary defines queercore as “Gay-themed, underground, independent music; usually punk rock (Team Dresch, Pansy Division, The But...
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QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)
2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
5.3/6
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the pas...
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30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2026
Bowels of Hell
0/0
Malu is organising a gender-reveal party for a pregnant influencer – while dealing with her own grief, her persistent constipation problems and her ad...
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Bowels of Hell
2005
Way Down
10/1
Deep dark sick folk on their way down to the bottom.
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The Blue Hermaphrodite
6/2
A hip and savvy look at sex, sexuality, gender and pop culture.
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