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.

Filmography

• 2026Bowels of Hell
• 2024The Visitor — Director, Screenplay
• 2022The Affairs of Lidia — Director, Writer
• 2021Saint-Narcisse — Director, Writer
• 2020Tom of Finland — Director
• 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing — Director
• 2018Flea Pit — Director
• 2018It Is Not the Pornographer That Is Perverse... — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2018Scotch Egg — Director
• 2018Uber Menschen — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2018Valentin, Pierre & Catalina — Director
• 2018XConfessions 14 — Director
• 2018XConfessions 15 — Director
• 2017Sodomise Me: The Anal Collection — Director
• 2017The Misandrists — Screenplay, Director, Producer, Still Photographer
• 2017Ulrike's Brain — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2017XConfessions 9 — Director
• 2016Boris Without Beatrice — Premier ministre
• 2016The Second Coming: Volume 2
• 2015The Material Boy — Self, Cinematography
• 2014Défense de fumer — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2014Pierrot Lunaire — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2013Gerontophilia — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 2012Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2 — (voice)
• 2012Fucking Different XXX — Director, Writer
• 2011Offing Jack — Director, Writer
• 2010Fuck Marriage — Production Manager
• 2010Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe — Director
• 2010L.A. Zombie — Director, Producer, Writer, Still Photographer
• 2010The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange — Director, Writer
• 2010Weekend in Alphaville — Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography
• 2008Otto; or, Up with Dead People — Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
• 2008Water Rats — Location Manager
• 2007Give Piece of Ass a Chance — Director
• 2006Druck im Schlauch — Production Manager
• 2005Way Down — Jürgen Anger
• 2004Kellerloch — Location Manager
• 2004Sugar — Short Story
• 2004The Raspberry Reich — Director, Writer
• Through the Night with... — Director
• 2001Deviant Detours — Producer
• 2001Escape in Chains — Producer
• 2000Heat Of Summer — Executive Producer
• 2000Oil Change — Producer
• 2000Sex Skins — Executive Producer
• 1999Frankfurt Stories — Director
• 1999Sex Garage — Executive Producer, Editor
• 1999Skin Flick — Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 1998Berlin Sex Life — Production Manager
• 1997Hayseed — Mr. Chartreuse
• 1996Hustler White — Jürgen Anger, Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
• 1994Dr. Chris Teen Sex Surrogate — Fonda
• 1994Super 8½ — Bruce, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1992Slam! — Director, Writer
• 1992The Yo-Yo Gang
• 1991No Skin Off My Ass — The Hairdresser, Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
• 1990The Troublemakers — The Punk
• 1988Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies — Director, Writer
• 1987Boy / Girl — Director, Writer
• 1987I Know What It's Like to Be Dead — Director, Writer
• Egg — Director, Screenplay
• Mary, Mary — Director, Writer
• Third Take — Director, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2022Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer — Self
• 2017Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution — Self
• 2016The Last Days of Joe Blow — Himself
• 2012She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column — Himself
• 2011Sagat — Self
• 2011The Advocate for Fagdom — Self
• 2010Gaze — Self
• 2007Llik Your Idols — Himself
• The House of Venus Show — Self
• 2004I, Curmudgeon — Self
• 2000Vinyl — Himself
• 1999Psycho Path — Self - Filmmaker
• 1997QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary) — Self
• 1990What Is the Relationship Between Rosa von Praunheim and the Male Strippers in San Francisco? — Self
• The Blue Hermaphrodite — Self