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Bruce LaBruce (b. 1964)

Alias:
Bruce La Bruce
Justin Stewart
Jürgen Anger

Birthplace:
Tiverton, Ontario, Canada

Born:
January 3, 1964

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Cinematography:
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2015  The Material Boy

Director:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Editor:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Producer:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Screenplay:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Short Story:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  Sugar
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Still Photographer:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  Sugar
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Story:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  Sugar
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

Writer:
1987  Boy / Girl
1987  I Know What It's Like to Be Dead
1988  Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
1991  No Skin Off My Ass
1992  Slam!
1994  Super 8½
1996  Hustler White
2004  Sugar
2004  The Raspberry Reich
2008  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2010  The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
2010  Weekend in Alphaville
2011  Offing Jack
2012  Fucking Different XXX
2013  Gerontophilia
2014  Défense de fumer
2014  Pierrot Lunaire
2015  The Material Boy
2017  The Misandrists
2017  Ulrike's Brain
2018  Scotch Egg
2018  Uber Menschen
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2020  Tom of Finland: Service Station
2021  Saint-Narcisse
2024  The Visitor

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2002  Through the Night with...

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