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.
41 directing credits · 33 acting credits
Directing · 41
Through the Night with...
2002
The Raspberry Reich
2004
Hustler White
1996
Egg
2026
Gerontophilia
2013
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Fucking Different XXX
2012
Saint-Narcisse
2021
Super 8½
1994
The Misandrists
2017
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2008
No Skin Off My Ass
1991
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010
Pierrot Lunaire
2014
Scotch Egg
2018
The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010
Boy / Girl
1987
Weekend in Alphaville
2010
Refugee's Welcome
2017
Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1988
Ulrike's Brain
2017
Slam!
1992
Défense de fumer
2014
Offing Jack
2011
Mary, Mary
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I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1987
The Affairs of Lidia
2022
The Visitor
2024
Sodomise Me
2017
L.A. Zombie
2010
Skin Flick
1999
Frankfurt Stories
1999
XConfessions 9
2017
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
Valentin, Pierre & Catalina
2018
Tom of Finland
2020
Flea Pit
2018
Acting · 33
Through the Night with...
2002
The House of Venus Show
2005
Hustler White
1996
Bowels of Hell
2026
Psycho Path
2000
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017
Gaze
2010
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
2022
Hayseed
1997
Super 8½
1994
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011
Sagat
2011
No Skin Off My Ass
1991
Pierrot Lunaire
2014
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
2012
The Second Coming: Volume 2
2016
The Troublemakers
1990
Boris Without Beatrice
2016
The Last Days of Joe Blow
2016
The Material Boy
2015
Llik Your Idols
2007
Vinyl
2000
Boy / Girl
1987
I, Curmudgeon
2004
Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1988
Way Down
2005
The Yo-Yo Gang
1992
Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
2012
QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)
1997
Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate
1994
I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1987
The Blue Hermaphrodite
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