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!”
Training Day
Action, Crime, Drama
7.5
Embodiment of Evil
Horror, Thriller
5.2
No Skin Off My Ass
Drama, Romance
6.3
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Action, Crime
6.9
Us
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
7.0
Hell House LLC
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
6.5
Top Gun: Maverick
Action, Drama
8.2
Don't Breathe 2
Thriller, Horror
7.0
My Name Is Vendetta
Action, Crime, Adventure, Thriller
6.6
Wonder Woman
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
7.2
Avengers: Endgame
Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
8.2
Avatar
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
7.6
Endless
Romance, Drama, Fantasy
6.7
Sonic the Hedgehog
Action, Science Fiction, Comedy, Family
7.3
Dracula 2000
Thriller, Horror, Action, Fantasy
5.2
Thor: Ragnarok
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.6
The Nun
Horror
5.9
Iron Man 3
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
6.9
After We Collided
Romance, Drama
7.2
Wonder Woman 1984
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
6.4
Everything Will Be Fine
Comedy, Drama, Romance
3.1
Time to Leave
Drama
6.5
The Pleasure Principle
Drama
4.8
Dyketactics
Romance, Drama
5.3
Dear Boys
Drama
4.6
Maybe... Maybe Not
Comedy, Drama
6.3
Desert Hearts
Drama, Romance
7.0
Summer Storm
Comedy, Drama
6.8
Mala Noche
Drama, Romance
6.1
Hidden Away
Drama, Romance
7.5
The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night
Drama
3.7
Cherry-Red
Drama, Romance
5.5
According to Mateo
Drama, Thriller
3.3
Beast
Drama, Romance
4.3
Petit ami
Drama
5.0
Dressed in Blue
Drama, Documentary
6.1
All of This Is Gone
Drama, Romance
7.0
Gay And Not Proud
Comedy, Music
0.0
Adjust-A-Dream
Drama
0.0
Sea Sparkles
Drama
6.0