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.

Directed

1. Gerontophilia (2013) — Director
2. Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) — Director
3. The Raspberry Reich (2004) — Director
4. Hustler White (1996) — Director
5. The Misandrists (2017) — Director
6. Saint-Narcisse (2021) — Director
7. Fucking Different XXX (2012) — Director
8. L.A. Zombie (2010) — Director
9. No Skin Off My Ass (1991) — Director
10. Super 8½ (1994) — Director
11. The Visitor (2024) — Director
12. Skin Flick (1999) — Director
13. It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse... (2018) — Director
14. Pierrot Lunaire (2014) — Director
15. XConfessions 9 (2017) — Director
16. 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) — Director
17. Slam! (1992) — Director
18. Through the Night with... (2002) — Director
19. The Affairs of Lidia (2022) — Director
20. XConfessions 15 (2018) — Director
21. I Know What It's Like to Be Dead (1987) — Director
22. Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies (1988) — Director
23. Boy / Girl (1987) — Director
24. Frankfurt Stories (1999) — Director
25. Uber Menschen (2018) — Director
26. The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange (2010) — Director
27. Tom of Finland (2020) — Director
28. Ulrike's Brain (2017) — Director
29. Sodomise Me (2017) — Director
30. Défense de fumer (2014) — Director
31. Weekend in Alphaville (2010) — Director
32. XConfessions 14 (2018) — Director
33. Give Piece of Ass a Chance (2007) — Director
34. Offing Jack (2011) — Director
35. Valentin, Pierre & Catalina (2018) — Director
36. Scotch Egg (2018) — Director
37. Egg (2026) — Director
38. Flea Pit (2018) — Director
39. Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe (2010) — Director
40. Mary, Mary — Director

Also appeared in

1. Hustler White (1996) — Jürgen Anger
2. Vinyl (2000) — Himself
3. Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution (2017) — Self
4. No Skin Off My Ass (1991) — The Hairdresser
5. Super 8½ (1994) — Bruce
6. Boris Without Beatrice (2016) — Premier ministre
7. Pierrot Lunaire (2014)
8. Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer (2022) — Self
9. Llik Your Idols (2007) — Himself
10. 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
11. The Yo-Yo Gang (1992)
12. I, Curmudgeon (2004) — Self
13. Psycho Path (1999) — Self - Filmmaker
14. The House of Venus Show (2005) — Self
15. The Advocate for Fagdom (2011) — Self
16. Hayseed (1997) — Mr. Chartreuse
17. QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary) (1997) — Self
18. Through the Night with... (2002)
19. Boy / Girl (1987)
20. Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies (1988)
21. I Know What It's Like to Be Dead (1987)
22. The Last Days of Joe Blow (2016) — Himself
23. Gaze (2010) — Self
24. Sagat (2011) — Self
25. The Blue Hermaphrodite — Self
26. She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column (2012) — Himself
27. The Troublemakers (1990) — The Punk
28. Bowels of Hell (2026)
29. Way Down (2005) — Jürgen Anger
30. Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2 (2012) — (voice)
31. The Second Coming: Volume 2 (2016)
32. Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate (1994) — Fonda
33. The Material Boy (2015) — Self