Virtual Screening
Gerontophilia

Gerontophilia

Directed by Bruce LaBruce

Rom-Com | Canada | 2013 | English | 82 Minutes

Synopsis/Details

Lake is in a straight relationship with Desiree but finds himself becoming attracted to men at the pool. When he cannot control his desires any longer, he starts working at an adult home and starts a relationship with a much older man.

Event Details

Saturday, October 29, 2022
8:00 pm

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Speakers

John Greyson

John Greyson

Filmmaker
Moderator

John Greyson is a Canadian director, writer, video artist, producer, and political activist, whose work frequently deals with queer characters and themes. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.

Bruce La Bruce

Bruce La Bruce

Director
Gerontophilia

Bruce LaBruce was a Canadian filmmaker who was known for employing conventional storytelling narratives into his sexually explicit films, many of which were of an avant-garde nature. The Ontario-born LaBruce (who is cagey about his real name, having claimed at different times that it was either Justin Stewart or Bryan Bruce) developed a fascination with filmmaking came in the 1980s when he happened upon a Super 8 movie camera. Over the course of the decade, LaBruce wrote and directed several experimental short films, including 1987's "Boy, Girl." By the early 90s, LaBruce transitioned into features, with adult-oriented films like "Slam!" (1992), "Super 8 ½" (1994), and "Hustler White" (1996) quickly establishing his style blending conventional storytelling techniques with overtly sexual subject matter.

Already known as a leading experimental filmmaker in his native Canada, LaBruce abandoned some of the more taboo subject matter of his previous work with the more accessible "Gerontophilia" (2013).