Gerontophilia, 2013
In a dramatic departure from his deliberately creepy and unsettling earlier work, LaBruce got almost wholesome with this sweet road-trip movie about a young man with a fetish for elderly folks.
For a quarter century, queer Canadian director Bruce LaBruce has been mashing up porn and arthouse fare, with a heaping helping of social commentary (and usually humor) on the side. He specializes in putting an erotic spin on decidedly unsexy subjects: For No Skin Off My Ass and Skin Flick, he made neo-Nazis into objects of desire, and in L.A. Zombie he rendered French porn star François Sagat unrecognizable under layers of gore. His work can be squirm-inducing—definitely not date-night material—but it's always fascinating. Many of his weird, wonderful works unspool at MoMA this week, and here are some of his most notable features which will be on view at the museum, ranked from almost quaint to pure filth.
