Bruce LaBruce has directed "The Affairs of Lidia," a new film produced with Lust Cinema. The film features performer Skye Blue and is described as a fashion world bedroom farce.

Production and Cast

"The Affairs of Lidia" was produced by Bruce LaBruce with funding and support from Lust Cinema, a Barcelona-based art-porn studio led by Erika Lust. The film centers on Skye Blue, a performer with a background in mainstream fashion modeling. Blue is featured with platinum short hair and various outfits, and is depicted interacting with the cast regardless of sexual orientation in Montreal locations.

The narrative of "The Affairs of Lidia" involves Lidia, who is married to Michelangelo. Michelangelo is depicted as cheating with Sandro, who is also involved with former model Marthe and current model Xenia. Sandro is married to Piero, a boutique owner in Montreal. The film's plot includes Piero, described as a "gold star gay," experiencing sexual intimacy with a woman before the film's conclusion.

The film is characterized as a "fashion movie" and a "polymorphous fuckfest." It is also described as an "outfit movie," a screwball comedy, an homage to a late-1960s/early-to-mid-1970s "horny vibe," and an "easter-egg mine for attentive cinephiles."

Bruce LaBruce's Background

Bruce LaBruce, born January 3, 1964, in Southampton, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground adult director based in Toronto. He has been active since 1987. LaBruce is recognized as a pioneer of the queercore punk rock movement. He studied film at York University in Toronto and wrote for Cineaction magazine.

LaBruce first gained public attention as co-editor of the queer punk zine J.D.s from 1985-1991, alongside G.B. Jones. He has also written and photographed for various publications, including Blackbook Magazine, Exclaim, Nerve.com, The Guardian, Index Magazine, Vice, Toronto Life, and the National Post. He was a columnist for Exclaim! and Toronto's Eye Weekly, and a contributing editor and photographer for New York's Index Magazine.

His filmmaking career began in 1991. In 1996, he co-wrote and directed "Hustler White" with Rick Castro, a film about gay hustlers in Los Angeles that became a gay cult classic and featured explicit sex scenes. This film helped establish LaBruce as a figure in the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s and paved the way for his future projects exploring sexual taboos and pornography.

LaBruce has been involved in directing, acting, producing, and cinematography across more than 40 narrative and documentary films, music videos, shorts, and TV series. His film "Otto; or, Up with Dead People" debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, his film "L.A. Zombie" was banned from screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival by Australian censors due to classification concerns, though it later screened at OutTakes, a New Zealand lesbian and gay international film festival, in May 2011.

LaBruce has been described as a "provocateur" and a "radical queer filmmaker." He was in London directing a hardcore porn remake of a Pier Paolo Pasolini film. He was also scheduled to appear at the Provincetown Film Festival, where John Waters was to present him with the Filmmaker on the Edge Award.

Lust Cinema and Erika Lust

Lust Cinema, based in Barcelona, is described as a prolific art-porn studio. The studio is led by Erika Lust. Lust Cinema provided funding and support for Bruce LaBruce's "The Affairs of Lidia."

Key Facts

  • "The Affairs of Lidia" is a new film directed by Bruce LaBruce and produced with Lust Cinema.
  • The film stars Skye Blue, a performer with a background in mainstream fashion modeling.
  • The narrative involves a complex web of relationships and sexual encounters among characters Lidia, Michelangelo, Sandro, Marthe, Xenia, and Piero.
  • Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground adult director, active since 1987.
  • Lust Cinema is a Barcelona-based art-porn studio led by Erika Lust.