Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenbergâs Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriendâs father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce âserves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,â is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenbergâs melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like âA cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!â
Music
Drama
Production Companies:
JĂźrgen BrĂźning Filmproduktion
Production Countries:
Canada
Germany
Astro
Videos
Date: 2014-09-17T18:08:27.000Z
PIERROT LUNAIRE | Dir. Bruce LaBruce | Canada + Deutschland, 2014 | Trailer
