Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies also known as Home Movies is a short experimental film by
Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964) is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.
Life and career
LaBruce was born in Tiverton, Ontario. He has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as ...
and Candy Parker.
Made in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988, it is filmed in colour and black and white on
Super 8mm
Super 8 mm film is a motion-picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.
The film is nominally 8 mm wide, the same as older formatted 8& ...
film and is 12 minutes long.
The conceptual premise of the film is that the audience is watching the home movies of Bruce Wayne Gacy and Pepper Wayne Gacy, the children of the notorious serial killer
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as " ...
. The film features various disturbing vignettes filmed in a dysfunctional home; a woman arrives (G. B. Jones) and begins beating up two men, a man (Bruce LaBruce) goes through a range of emotions watching a man (Dave Dictor) attempt to perform drunken oral sex on a woman on a bathroom floor while an oblivious small dog runs about, and a man eats in a deranged manner from a dog food bowl on the floor and howls.
The film stars Bruce LaBruce,
G.B. Jones
G. B. Jones (born 1965) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician, and publisher of zines born in Bowmanville, Canada. She is known for producing J.D.s with her acclaimed''Tom Girls'' drawings before going on to create more musically, cinematica ...
,
Dave Dictor
Dave Dictor (born December 4, 1956) is an American musician, singer of the punk rock band MDC (of which he is a founding member), and founder of the band's label, R Radical Records. Dictor is known for his political lyrics, involvement in the ...
, Joe The Ho, David Gravelle.
''Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies'' was first shown in 1990 and 1991 by LaBruce and Jones as part of the
J.D.s movie screenings in London in the UK, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and in San Francisco and at
Hallwalls
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (aka Hallwalls) is a non-profit art organization located in Buffalo, New York. Since 1974, Hallwalls has shown and shows the work of contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds who work in film, video, literature ...
in Buffalo in the U.S. It is still being regularly screened at museums and film festivals worldwide.
Kulone Global, "LaBruce - The Retrospective!", July 2010
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References
Further reading
*Editors: Allan, Yoran; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah,''Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide'', Wallflower Press, 2002
*Editors: Ehmke, Ronald and Licata, Elizabeth, ''Consider the Alternatives: 20 Years of Contemporary Art at Hallwalls'', Hallwalls Publishing, 1996
External links
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1980s English-language films
Canadian comedy-drama films
1988 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Bruce LaBruce
Queercore films
Canadian LGBT-related short films
Films shot in Toronto
Films about John Wayne Gacy
1988 comedy films
1988 films
1988 drama films
Canadian drama short films
Canadian comedy short films
1980s Canadian films
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