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.
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Movies (49)
Egg
Director (Directing)
2026
Bowels of Hell
2026
The Visitor
Director (Directing)
2024
The Affairs of Lidia
Director (Directing)
2022
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
as Self
2022
Saint-Narcisse
Director (Directing)
2021
Tom of Finland
Director (Directing)
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
XConfessions 15
Director (Directing)
2018
Valentin, Pierre & Catalina
Director (Directing)
2018
Flea Pit
Director (Directing)
2018
XConfessions 14
Director (Directing)
2018
Scotch Egg
Director (Directing)
2018
It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse...
Director (Directing)
2018
Uber Menschen
Writer (Writing)
2018
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
as Self
2017
XConfessions 9
Director (Directing)
2017
Refugee's Welcome
Director (Directing)
2017
The Misandrists
Screenplay (Writing)
2017
Ulrike's Brain
Director (Directing)
2017
Sodomise Me
Director (Directing)
2017
The Second Coming: Volume 2
2016
Boris Without Beatrice
as Premier ministre
2016
The Last Days of Joe Blow
as Himself
2016
The Material Boy
as Self
2015
Défense de fumer
Director (Directing)
2014
Pierrot Lunaire
2014
Gerontophilia
Director (Directing)
2013
Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
as (voice)
2012
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
as Himself
2012
Fucking Different XXX
Director (Directing)
2012
The Advocate for Fagdom
as Self
2011
Offing Jack
Director (Directing)
2011
Sagat
as Self
2011
Fuck Marriage
Production Manager (Production)
2010
Weekend in Alphaville
Director (Directing)
2010
Gaze
as Self
2010
The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
Director (Directing)
2010
L.A. Zombie
Director (Directing)
2010
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Director (Directing)
2008
Water Rats
Location Manager (Production)
2008
Llik Your Idols
as Himself
2007
Give Piece of Ass a Chance
Director (Directing)
2007
Druck im Schlauch
Production Manager (Production)
2006
Way Down
as Jürgen Anger
2005
Sugar
Short Story (Writing)
2004
I, Curmudgeon
as Self
2004
The Raspberry Reich
Director (Directing)
2004
Kellerloch
Location Manager (Production)
2004
