Hustler White

Name: Hustler White
Start: 2022-09-27
Location: La Cinémathèque québécoise

Hustler White (VOSTF)

Location

Main screening room

Date

September 27th, 2022

Duration

81 min

Cycle

Bruce LaBruce: Tender and transgressive

The work of Canadian Bruce LaBruce has been acclaimed in the US and France, and have been shown at prestigious festivals, but the filmmaker remains relatively unknown in the Land of the Maple Leaf. This retrospective, the largest ever organized in Canada, will allow us to measure the audacity and exuberance of LaBruce's work while depicting all the variations of sexuality on screen, from gay eroticism to transgression. Here is a subversive, pleasurable and combative queer cinema which will leave no one indifferent.

Guest in attendance : Bruce LaBruce

Hustler White

Directed by

Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro

Language

VOSTF

Actors

Tony Ward, Kevin P. Scott, Bruce LaBruce

Origins

Canada, Germany

Year

1996

Duration

81 min

Genre

18 years and over, erotism

Rating

18+ erotism

Format

Digital

Synopsis

Floating on his stomach in a hot tub, prostitute Monti Ward recounts the circumstances that led to his death... Referring in a satirical tone to Sunset Boulevard, *Hustler White *transposes the action from the golden age of Hollywood to the contemporary world of prostitution and homosexual pornography in Los Angeles.

Bruce LaBruce

Born in 1964 in Tiverton, Ontario, Bruce LaBruce studied film theory and social and political thought at York University in Toronto in the 1980s. He wrote film reviews for CineAction magazine, contributed to underground gay magazines, and shot his first super-8 films in the late 1980s. His first two feature films, No Skin Off My Ass and Super 8 ½, introduced him to specialized film festivals. Following Hustler White, Bruce LaBruce made a series of feature films known for their explicit gay sexuality, a taste for transgression and pastiche, and an abrasive sense of humor. His association with German producer Jüngen Brüning led him to direct some of his films in Germany. He has also made adult films, notably for the Erika Lust and CockyBoys studios. He shot two feature films in Quebec: Gerontophilia (2013) and Saint-Narcisse (2020), produced by 1976 productions. Bruce LaBruce also practices photography and writing, signing, for example, the collection of texts Porn Diaries (2020).