Films A to Z
The Advocate For Fagdom
- Runtime:
- 92 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2011
- Country:
- Frankreich
- Director:
- Cast:
Gus Van Sant
Bruce Benderson
Glenn Belverio
Rupert Goldsworthy
Ernest Hardy
Richard Kern
Harmony Korine
Javier Peres
Jack Sargeant
John Waters
Jey Crisfar
Susanne Sachsse
Vaginal Davis
Jürgen Brüning
Rick Castro- Production Company:
- Le Chat qui Fume
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Documentary Film
Visitors to the Berlinale are well acquainted with the work of Canadian underground director Bruce LaBruce. Co-directed with Rick Castro, his feature film debut, HUSTLER WHITE, which told the story of a rent boy working on Santa Monica Boulevard, screened at the Berlinale in 1996. Bruce LaBruce also showed his gay zombie horror film OTTO, OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE – at the festival in 2008. Bruce LaBruce freely admits that “most of my films are sexually explicit”. His work mixes gay porn with the artistic mores of independent cinema.
Bruce LaBruce, whose real name is Justin Stewart, was born in Southampton, Ontario, in 1964. He attended film school in Toronto and studied film theory at New York University. He has worked for gay punk fanzines and produced Super 8mm films. “Aficionados think of him as a transgressive artist in the truest sense of the word” says French festival director Frédéric Thibaut, “those who are more behind the times see him, at best, as the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters. Pragmatists cherish him as a leading light of the queercore movement.”
In her portrait of this controversial filmmaker Angélique Bosio combines rare archive material with statements from his collaborators and famous colleagues including John Waters, Gus Van Sant, Harmony Korine and Richard Kern. The film also includes an interview with Berlin producer Jürgen Brüning, for LaBruce’s most recent films (including the 2004 work THE RASPBERRY REICH), were all made in Berlin. Bruce LaBruce: “It’s great filming in Berlin. The city is one of the best places to film in the world; it has spectacular locations where you can either film for nothing or very cheaply.”
BIOGRAFIE Angélique Bosio
Born in France in 1978, she began her career working in sales for the company Mondofilms and later moved into production.
Her jobs include working as a production secretary on Stephen Frears’ CHERI, which screened in Competition at the 2009 Berlinale.
In 2002 she began working on LLIK YOUR IDOLS (2007), a documentary about the Cinema of Transgression and New York’s New Wave of the eighties.
She is currently working on a documentary about fashion and lingerie designer Fifi Chachnil. She lives in Paris.
FILMOGRAFIE Angélique Bosio (selection)
2013 Pretty en Rose
2011 The Advocate For Fagdom
2007 Llik Your Idols