Bruce LaBruce - The Raspberry Reich (2004)

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Bruce LaBruce - The Revolution is My Boyfriend (2004)

Plot

The core plot begins with the kidnapping of Patrick, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Sexual and romantic engtanglements push the drama forward. At the film's climax, Gudrun delivers a soliloquy on the importance of personal life in revolution. She puts particular emphasis on the breaking of heterosexual and possessive sexual norms, urging her comrades to join "The Homosexual Intifada".

The pressure of Gudrun's controlling personality causes the group to break up. Most of the urban guerrillas escape into the night. In the dénouement, the characters are visited some time later. Several have found happiness in the homosexual relationships established during their revolutionary activities. Che has become a terrorist trainer in the Middle East. Patrick escapes with Clyde, where they embark on a spree of bank robberies. This action is reminiscent of Patty Hearst's actions with the SLA. Gudrun and Andreas settle down and have a child named Ulrike (after Ulrike Meinhof), whom Gudrun believes could embody the next generation of the Red Army Faction.

Style

The film's style is propagandistic. The actors are placed in rooms wallpapered with photographs of Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, and Che Guevara. This symbolises the historical connection to the RAF. At several points during the film, the action pauses while the characters recite long passages from Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life, as though they are speaking from their own thoughts. Onscreen titles are also used to convey and enhance political messages.

Pornography plays a large visual role in the film. The opening sequence is an extended montage of sexual activity (some of it unsimulated), as is the film's climactic scene.

Slogans

Slogans are used to convey the politics of the Raspberry Reich. They are both and extension and parody of the slogans used by political organisations. Some slogans used in the film:

* "The Revolution is my boyfriend!"
* "Fuck me up against the wall, motherfucker!"
* "Fuck me for the Revolution!"
* "Are you revolutionary enough to give up your girlfriends?" (Question originally asked at a Weather Underground conference counterposing sexuality and revolution, in the context of Raspberry Reich it counterposes hetero and homosexuality.)
* "Join the homosexual intifada!"
* "No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution."
* "Out of the bedrooms into the streets!" - chanted while engaged in sexual activity
* "Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses"
* Declaring things to be counter revolutionary: "Corporate hip hop is counter revolutionary!"; " Madonna is counter revolutionary"; "Cornflakes are counter revolutionary"; "Masturbation is counter revolutionary".

Humour

Humour is employed to explore the gap between reality and ideal in the terrorist world. For example, after the kidnapping is complete, the terrorists who are sworn vegetarians for political reasons ("meat is counter revolutionary") visit Burger King, a multinational corporate fast food chain.










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Bruce LaBruce - No Skin Off My Ass (1991)

Description: NSOMA is a gay remake of Robert Altman's That Cold Day In The Park. Director Bruce LaBruce plays the Karen Carpenter-loving hairstylist who is helplessly attracted to the lonely and stoic skinhead he finds and invites to his home. So goes the plot of No Skin off My Ass, the raunchy debut film by new queer-cinema enfant terrible Bruce LaBruce, full of his mix of radical politics, wry humor, and hot, gay sex between nonprofessional actors. This very sexually explicit comedy is really for anyone - male or female, straight or not - who is a bit curious and wants to see a movie that offers something... a little different.

Heralding the 90’s wave of the “New Queer Cinema”, No Skin Off My Ass is a raw and decidedly D.I.Y. exercise in gay porn as art house cinema. Shot in grainy black & white 8mm with a focus on a handsome, young skinhead, No Skin Off My Ass serves as something of a contemporary counterpoint to James Bidgood's Pink Narcissus in its glorification of male beauty. Unavailable on DVD in the U.S.

No Skin Off My Ass played film festivals around the world and quickly became a cult film. Famously, Kurt Cobain declared it his favourite film. In 2005 , Gus Van Sant, the director of Last Days, a fictionalized account of Cobain's last days, told Planet Out magazine, "He did this interview after he had just seen No Skin Off My Ass by Bruce LaBruce and he said that was his favorite movie."












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Bruce Labruce - Hustler White (1996)

From IMDB:
I have seen this film twice and each time see different elements. The film is a 'shocker' not a family film. Graphic S&M, sexual, playful, obscene, realistic and just outrageous. For mature audiences with an open mind. The story starts by bouncing around Hollywood, looking into the encounters of other hustlers and later as the two main characters develop, finishes in a love story. Tony Ward (long time model in magazine & music video) is portrayed as La Bruce's obsession which might have a tragic ending? you'll have to see for yourself!







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Bruce LaBruce - Skin Gang (1999)

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Skin Gang, directed by Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, follows the various sexual and violent escapades of several skinheads. The film raised a great amount of controversy when it premiered in 1999, as many viewers were disturbed by its violent and sexual content, and many critics within the gay community criticized it for perpetuating negative stereotypes about homosexuals and for glorifying violence.





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Bruce LaBruce - Super 8 1/2 (1993)

LaBruce stars in this vaguely autobiographical look at a triple-X star-director caught in the downward spiral of his career. Remarks Googie, the art-house auteur who's either exploiting LaBruce or launching his comeback, "He was actually attempting to break down the whole subject-camera relationship... It was as if he was an existentialist trapped in a porno star's body." Well, almost.

Just as LaBruce's scrawny, hangover aesthetics challenge the conventions of gay porn's Wonder Bread desire, his newly adroit camera unsettles narrative assumptions. A dense weave of self-reflexive interviews, cynical vignettes, and outrageous cameos by "Kids In The Hall" Scott Thompson and drag goddess Vaginal Creme Davis - along with moments stolen almost verbatim from films like Fellini's 8 1/2 and Perry's Play It As It Lays - Super 8 1/2 still manages enough rude sex to keep the whole unruly narrative in your face.

(brucelabruce.com)






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Hasko Baumann - Durch die Nacht mit... Bruce LaBruce und Jörg Buttgereit (2006)

Description:
"Durch die Nacht mit... " (2002) (aka "Into the night with...") is an award winning series produced for ZDF/ARTE since 2002. The series matches artists from different fields to spend an evening together in a city of their choice. The idea is to create a forum for artists to exchange ideas and also show them as real people. Various locations and surprises evoke spontaneous reactions and interactions between the artists, cameras that operate fly-on-the-wall-like add to the unusual high level of authenticity and realness.




In this episode the two filmmakers Bruce LaBruce (Skin Flick, Hustler White....) and Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Schramm...) meet in Toronto. They visit a porno cinema, a dominatrix and a dance club. You may think, that these two men fit together perfect. But Buttgereit isnt't that unconventional. He is married since long time, doesn't watch pornography (Where did he get his ideas from...?). LaBruce suggests that he was wanking during some splatter films. Although it's an interesting meeting and Buttgereit has a beaming smile.



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Language: English (with german hardcoded subs)
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