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!”

2000 film by Esther Gronenborn

2008 film by Bruce LaBruce

分别由7位女同性恋导演拍摄有关男同性恋的“性欲”故事；和7位男同性恋导演拍摄的关于女同性恋的“情欲”故事。演出的顺序是“男女”交错呈现，向观众展示出这一群特殊分子的生活，他/她们彼此有趣的看法，更少不了互相揭露他/她们的“隐秘”私事……