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| Bruce LaBruce, LA ZOMBIE, 2010 Courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin |
Bruce LaBruce is considered a true maestro. His films and his set are a perfect mix of fiction and reality. The boundary between the two, including staging and acting, is an essential component of pornography. LaBruce shows things as they are setting them free them from additional meaning. This has to do with the idea of sublime.
LaBruce looks for the crudeness of life, and pushes us into the wilderness, where no one dares to open the eyes, thinking about the human lot in search for the (lost, or ever permanent) state of nature. This is a romantic idea that runs through his work.
He follow this path in the film 'La Zombie: The Film That Would Not Die' presented at Peres Projects in Berlin. The film is a mix of splatter horror, B-movie, TV-fiction and Hard porn, but with a strong consistent narrative technique.
The story is quite simple, and halfway between Frankenstein and Beauty and the Beast.
A man with muscles appears like a green sea monster emerges from the deep water in the seaside near Los Angeles. He is a castaway emerging from the waves as Neptune, the greek god of the sea and of the deep. The movie shows him hitchhiking along the highway. A young guy driving his car sees him and stops. The monster/porn-star gets out just before the goes off the road and crashes. The boy bleeds and dies, while the monster is shocked inside the car.
Then a miracle happens. The green monster looks at the boy’s dead body and suddenly he falls in love with him. He cannot help resisting. The big green monster takes off his pants and pulls out a huge cock with a hooked peak. He sticks it into the bleeding wounds right in the chest of the guy.
His orgasm generates a fountain of blood, rather than sperma, thus awakening the guy. The following sequence shows the two lovers before they leave. So we discover that the green monster has a dual nature. As the last man in the human community he is treated like a semi-god who saves and redeems those lost, even the most unhappy ones. He even resurrects a man who had been killed for money and shady deals, then an addicted heroin living in tent camps, a man with a hole in the head (that makes you think of the huge black phallus with the hook), and in the end, a whole troupe of movie actors; the zombie masturbates the actors who, waken up by the miracle, engage in a gay orgy).
In the meanwhile each reborn characters becomes a new zombie wandering through the streets of Los Angeles. Strange to me was the thing absence of women in the film, apart from two girls sitting in a service station bar in which the tramp-zombie enters, orders a glass of milk, sips it sitting at a table (yet the girls don’t benefit from the revitalizing power of his disproportionate penis).
Behind the curtain LaBruce recalls the ancient mythology and tries to evoke the pathos of the tragedy. He converts elements belonging to the tradition of Greek mythology such as the monster seen as phenomenon of Nature, the oversized phallus, the orgy into a pop and contemporary scenario. In the concluding scene the zombie stays in a cemetery, crying and thinking about the pain and sorrow of the world. In the city-streets bathed with sun people still live unaware.
LaBruce looks for the crudeness of life, and pushes us into the wilderness, where no one dares to open the eyes, thinking about the human lot in search for the (lost, or ever permanent) state of nature. This is a romantic idea that runs through his work.
He follow this path in the film 'La Zombie: The Film That Would Not Die' presented at Peres Projects in Berlin. The film is a mix of splatter horror, B-movie, TV-fiction and Hard porn, but with a strong consistent narrative technique.
The story is quite simple, and halfway between Frankenstein and Beauty and the Beast.
A man with muscles appears like a green sea monster emerges from the deep water in the seaside near Los Angeles. He is a castaway emerging from the waves as Neptune, the greek god of the sea and of the deep. The movie shows him hitchhiking along the highway. A young guy driving his car sees him and stops. The monster/porn-star gets out just before the goes off the road and crashes. The boy bleeds and dies, while the monster is shocked inside the car.
Then a miracle happens. The green monster looks at the boy’s dead body and suddenly he falls in love with him. He cannot help resisting. The big green monster takes off his pants and pulls out a huge cock with a hooked peak. He sticks it into the bleeding wounds right in the chest of the guy.
His orgasm generates a fountain of blood, rather than sperma, thus awakening the guy. The following sequence shows the two lovers before they leave. So we discover that the green monster has a dual nature. As the last man in the human community he is treated like a semi-god who saves and redeems those lost, even the most unhappy ones. He even resurrects a man who had been killed for money and shady deals, then an addicted heroin living in tent camps, a man with a hole in the head (that makes you think of the huge black phallus with the hook), and in the end, a whole troupe of movie actors; the zombie masturbates the actors who, waken up by the miracle, engage in a gay orgy).
In the meanwhile each reborn characters becomes a new zombie wandering through the streets of Los Angeles. Strange to me was the thing absence of women in the film, apart from two girls sitting in a service station bar in which the tramp-zombie enters, orders a glass of milk, sips it sitting at a table (yet the girls don’t benefit from the revitalizing power of his disproportionate penis).
Behind the curtain LaBruce recalls the ancient mythology and tries to evoke the pathos of the tragedy. He converts elements belonging to the tradition of Greek mythology such as the monster seen as phenomenon of Nature, the oversized phallus, the orgy into a pop and contemporary scenario. In the concluding scene the zombie stays in a cemetery, crying and thinking about the pain and sorrow of the world. In the city-streets bathed with sun people still live unaware.
Bruce LaBruce's blog for LA Zombie, http://www.lazombie.com/index2.php
Bruce LaBruce, 'LA Zombie'
Schlesische Str. 26
10997 Berlin
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M
until 24/4/2010
10997 Berlin
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M
until 24/4/2010
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