An Interview with Director Bruce Labruce shot on location of L.A. Zombie will appear in Dead Man Working. The conception of this documentary is thanks in part to my experience working on that film set. I mean it is what prompted me to ask...why? Otto is considered the first "gay zombie film," L.A. Zombie blew it out of the water, taking the title of "first gay zombie porn."
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| L.A. Zombie movie poster |
L.A. Zombie is a 2010 queer cinema zombie film. This is the second zombie or undead film entry by the director. Production was a bit intense but in the end all well worth it. The film premiered in competition at Locarno International Film Festival inSwitzerland in 2010.
I remember being at Yoga practice and receiving a frantic text message from one of the producers about the film's entry into the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia on the 7th and 8th of August 2010. Turns out they outright classified L.A. Zombie as blatant pornography masked as art! Festival director, Richard Wolstencroft held a screening in protest, only to have his house raided by the police on the morning of November 11, 2010. Wolstencroft admitted to police that an August 29 screening had occurred but claimed to have destroyed the only copy of the film afterwards.
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| Francois Sagat; Star of L.A. Zombie |
Crazy Shit huh?! All in all, this is an important example that Dead Man Working relies on
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| Dir. Bruce Labruce |
Bruce LaBruce is a Toronto based filmmaker, writer, director, photographer, and artist. He began his career in the mid eighties making a series of short experimental super 8 films and co-editing a punk fanzine called J.D.s, which begat the queercore movement. He has directed and starred in three feature length movies, "No Skin Off My Ass" (1991), "Super 8 1/2" (1994), and "Hustler White" (1996). More recently he has directed two art/porn features, “Skin Flick” (2000)(hardcore version: “Skin Gang”) and “The Raspberry Reich” (2004)(hardcore version: “The Revolution Is My Boyfriend”), and the independent feature “Otto; or, Up with Dead People” (2008).
“Otto; or, Up with Dead People” also debuted at Sundance and Berlin and played at over 150 film festivals, culminating in a screening at MoMA in New York City in November of 2008.
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Jey Crisfar; Star of Otto; Or Up with Dead People
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