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Director Bruce LaBruce recently launched a blog on his Web site. In his most recent posting, entitled “Hey, Blogging is Fun!”, he writes:
“Doing a Blog is scary. Even though I’ve basically been a blogger in print for the last eleven years, it’s still unnerving to write down your thoughts, feelings, and ideas for all to see on the WWW. I recently stopped doing my monthly and bi-weekly columns for Exclaim (fired after eleven years) and Eye Weekly (quit after seven years), respectively, so now I suppose I’m reduced to this: blabbering on and on on the internet about my pathetic little life while listening to Sister Janet Mead singing The Lord’s Prayer on my i-tunes. I am starting to publish in a variety of other publications and on websites, but I guess this is the only place I will be able to truly vent my spleen for a while. To jump right in, here’s a comment I posted recently on a site called Maisonneuve.org in response to an article a Canadian novelist wrote about my new movie The Raspberry Reich after she saw it at the Berlinale. I went off on her because I am sick up and fed of critics and real people complaining about the ‘bad acting’ in my movies. It’s a porno movie, for chrissakes. With real porn actors. Get a grip. And I had them delivering lines like ‘Don’t you understand the fundamental dynamics of terrorist abduction?’ and ‘In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy fo the desire to create.’ Actually, for porn actors, I think they did pretty good. What do you expect? Shakespeare in the park?”
La Bruce’s Raspberry Reich is currently making the rounds of this summer’s gay and lesbian film festivals, including NewFest/New York, Outfest/Los Angeles, Frameline/San Francisco, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival.
Also playing the queer fests is John Palmer’s terrific second feature, Sugar, based on short stories by Bruce LaBruce.
LaBruce’s Raspberry Reich, a German/Canadian co-production, was produced by Jurgen Bruning, who recently launched a new porn company called Wurstfilm. Bruning was previously a partner in Cazzo Films with Jorg Andreas, whose film Locked Up is also making the rounds of the gay fest circuit this summer.
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