Bruce LaBruce is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist whose work is known for pushing boundaries and blurring the lines between independent film and pornography. Along with numerous short films, he has written and directed fourteen feature films, including Gerontophilia, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in 2012. His feature film L.A. Zombie was notably banned in Australia.
His latest movie, Saint-Narcisse, was named one of the top ten films of 2021 by John Waters in Artforum. His most recent porn feature, The Affairs of Lidia, was released in 2022 and premiered at BAFICI in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is currently working on an art/porn experimental film called The Visitor for the a/political gallery in London, UK. LaBruce has had three major film retrospectives, at the TIFF/Bell Lightbox in Toronto (2014), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC (2015), and currently at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal.