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Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s 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 girlfriend’s 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 “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”
Cast: Susanne Sachße, Maria Ivanenko, Paulina Bachmann, Luizo Vega, Mehdi Berkouki, Boris Lisowski
Crew: Bruce LaBruce (Director), Albert Giraud (Poem), Arnold Schönberg (Original Music Composer), Tomas Liska (Director of Photography), Ismail Necmi (Director of Photography), Jürgen Brüning (Producer)
Studio: Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion
Runtime: 51 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Feb 09, 2014
IMDb: 5.7
Country: Canada, Germany
Language: English, Deutsch
Keyword : transsexual, lgbt
