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Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964)〔(Arts: Bruce LaBruce ) on glbtq.com〕 is a Canadian actor, writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground adult director based in Toronto, Ontario. 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.〔(Punched in the Nose: An Interview with Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce ). ''South Coast Today'', February 27, 2008.〕 ==Life and career== LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as his birth name in different sources.〔"Filmmaker's series critiques gay sensibilities". ''Toronto Star'', November 1999.〕 He studied film at York University in Toronto and wrote for ''Cineaction'' magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher. He first gained public attention with the publication of the queer punk zine ''J.D.s'', which he co-edited with G.B. Jones.〔 He currently writes and photographs for a variety of publications including ''Vice'', Nerve.com and ''BlackBook'' magazine, and has also previously been a columnist for the Canadian music magazine ''Exclaim!'' and Toronto's ''eye weekly'', as well as a contributing editor and photographer for New York's ''index'' magazine. He has also been published in ''Toronto Life'', the ''National Post'' and ''The Guardian''. His filmmaking style is marked by a blend of explicitly pornographic depictions of sex with more conventional narrative and filmmaking techniques, as well as an interest in extreme topics which mainstream audiences might dismiss as shocking or disturbing taboos.〔"Bruce LaBruce: There Is a Certain Romance to It". ''L.A. Record'', June 26, 2009.〕 For instance, his films have depicted scenes of sexual fetish and paraphilia, BDSM, gang rape, racially-motivated violence, amputee fetishism, male and female prostitution, and zombie and vampire sexuality.〔 He has frequently been identified with the subversive New Queer Cinema movement that emerged in the 1990s,〔 although at the height of that movement's prominence he rejected the association on the grounds that he felt more personally aligned with the queercore movement.〔 The queercore movement was born in the 1980s and LaBruce was one of the fathers. Noted as the avant-garde and unapologetic gay answer to the punk movement, queercore expressed the very same discontent with society as the punks were stating. His movie, ''Otto, or, Up With Dead People'' debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. ''L.A. Zombie'' was banned from the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010 because, in the opinion of Australian censors, it would have been refused classification. However, the film was subsequently able to screen at OutTakes, a New Zealand lesbian and gay international film festival, in May 2011.〔(Festival zombie porn flick banned ). ABC News, July 21, 2010.〕 In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera ''Pierrot Lunaire'' at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin. This iteration of the opera included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, as well as a female to male transgender Pierrot.〔Michael Ladner. ("Bruce LaBruce and Item Idem at the Opera" ). ''Butt'', March 10, 2011.〕 He subsequently also filmed this adaptation as the 2014 theatrical film ''Pierrot Lunaire''. Beginning with ''Gerontophilia'' in 2013, LaBruce dropped some of the more sexually explicit aspects of his filmmaking style. He retained his traditional interest in exploring sexual taboos, dramatizing an intergenerational relationship between a young man and a senior citizen, but opted to do so within a film that would be more palatable to a mainstream audience.〔("Marie-Hélène Thibault et Pier-Gabriel Lajoie dans «Gerontophilia», un film de Bruce LaBruce tourné à Montréal" ). ''Huffington Post'', December 19, 2012. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce LaBruce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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