SCREENINGS BRUCE LABRUCE

A filmmaker, photographer, writer and above all, an iconoclastic artist who has made his name in the history. Considered one of the creators of the Queercore social and artistic movement which emerged in the 1980s, LaBruce has written and directed nine provocative feature films and twenty short films. His cinematographic work has become an international benchmark for using transgressive narratives that combine the vulgar and the poetic, questioning the limits of taste and our preconceived ideas of politics. Disturbing and politically incorrect, his work has influenced such diverse artists as Harmony Korine, Kurt Cobain or Jeff Koons.
Among the many places that have put on exhibitions of his work is the MoMA in New York, which organised a retrospective in 2015. His work has also been shown for decades in international festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival where it received the Teddy Award in 2014. Since 1987, this prize has been handed over on the night before the Golden Bear prizewinning ceremony, to movies starring lesbian, gay or transsexual actors. The first Teddy Award went to Almodóvar for his Law of Desire and since then other awards have gone to Derek Jarman, Gus Van Sant, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, François Ozon, James Franco or Claudia Llosa, among others.
NO SKIN OFF MY ASS (Super 8/16mm) 22 June
Plató - Cineteca Madrid LaBruce’s first movie, shot in black and white, reworks the film by Robert Altman That Cold Day in the Park: the story of an unmarried teacher who falls in love with a young criminal. In this version, Bruce himself plays a hairdresser obsessed with skinheads. The sex scenes intertwined with political messages and a new language invented by LaBruce quickly turned it into a cult movie. Directed, written, edited and coproduced by: Bruce LaBruce
Year of release: 1991
Duration: 75 min.
Recommended for people aged 18 or over
HUSTLER WHITE (16 mm) 23 June
Plató - Cineteca Madrid In 1996, his punk cast moved to Hollywood to film the romantic comedy Hustler White which he directed together with Rick Castro. This movie about Los Angeles hustlers begins with a tribute to Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder: the actor Tony Ward, then the fetish model of Madonna’s videoclips, floats face down in a jacuzzi; his voice over begins the flashback that constitutes the body of this sex comedy which is a satire on gay prostitution in Hollywood. With clear references to classic movies, it is a utopian “made in LaBruce” fantasy. Directed by: Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro.
Coproduction and screenwriting: Bruce LaBruce
Duration: 80 min
Year of release: 1996
Recommended for people aged 18 or over
THE RASPBERRY REICH (Digital) 24 June
Plató - Cineteca Madrid Inspired by the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the extreme left-wing militant group that was active in West Germany in the 1970s, LaBruce has created his character Gudrun, a dominatrix who claims that heterosexuality is a social norm designed to keep people depressed and who obliges her minions to have sex with her. The film has a style akin to propaganda and there are parodies of political organisations in it. Director and screenwriter: Bruce LaBruce
Duration: 92 min
Year of release: 2004
Recommended for people aged 18 or over