And I should say I’ve made two short films with the same theme – I made one called Give Piece of Ass a Chance a number of years after Raspberry Reich, maybe 2008 or ’09. There’s some truth to that being a revenge motif, for all those homosexuals who’ve had to deal with that. It’s just kind of a reversal of that, forcing straight people to become homosexual as a reaction against that mentality, even in just a playful or satirical style. She forces her straight male followers to have sex with each other to prove their revolutionary commitment.įor me, it’s kind of an antidote to the perceptions of homosexuality that go on in general society, where people try to convert homosexuals to heterosexuality. Like you said, in Raspberry Reich there’s the leader of the leftist radical would-be group who believes that there will be no revolution without not only sexual revolution, but homosexual revolution. So that’s a theme that’s run through all my movies. The origin of The Misandrists goes even further back to my first film, Super 8 ½, which was 1994, a film within a film with two lesbian terrorists running around kidnapping men with ponytails, cutting off their ponytails and raping them with guns. You know they say that ‘auteur’ directors make the same film their entire career, and that’s kind of true for me. What influenced you to revisit that theme 14 years later? The Raspberry Reich came out in 2004, and both that and The Misandrists deal with a radical separatist group that mandates homosexuality. ( Thanks to our sponsor Overcast as part of the Chicago Podcast Coop!) LISTEN HERE OR DOWNLOAD:
(We also pepper in a few updates about our recent podcast hiatus, and some fun news for the future of the show.) His latest, The Misandrists (read our review here) is no exception for this latest episode of On Tap, Theo Estes sits down with LaBruce to talk about the politics of his films, their bawdy B-movie inspirations, and the need for confrontational movies like these.
This piece was originally posted on AlcohollywoodĪrthouse queer enfant terrible Bruce LaBruce has crafted an interesting career as an underground director of gory, sexy, splatter-ific screeds on radical topics like terrorism, feminism, and gay liberation. You don't seem to really get involved in the story feels rather kinetic since the few choices you make as of 0.6 don't seem to matter, but maybe they will further down the line.We interview queersploitation provacateur Bruce LaBruce about queer cinema, working on a low budget, and his latest feminist satire The Misandrists.
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