Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies
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Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies also known as Home Movies is a short experimental film by Bruce LaBruce
and Candy Parker.
Made in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988, it is filmed in colour and black and white on Super 8mm 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
. 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, Dave Dictor
, 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
in Buffalo in the U.S. It is still being regularly screened at museums and film festivals worldwide.
Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:...
and Candy Parker.
Made in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988, it is filmed in colour and black and white on Super 8mm 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
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer, rapist and clown who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawlspace of his home, buried three others elsewhere on his property, and discarded the...
. 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, Dave Dictor
Dave Dictor
Dave Dictor is the lead singer for the hardcore punk band MDC.Dictor was raised on Long Island and dropped out of Boston University in the 1970s. He taught public school in New York for five years. He spent a period of time living in Montana before moving to Austin, Texas, where he formed a band...
, 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
J.D.s
J.D.s is a queer punk zine founded in Toronto by G.B. Jones and co-published with Bruce LaBruce, that ran for eight issues from 1985 to 1991....
movie screenings in London in the UK, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and in San Francisco and at Hallwalls
Hallwalls
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center is a non-profit organization in Buffalo, N.Y. that showcases artists of diverse backgrounds in film, video, literature, music, performance, media and visual arts. Since its inception, Hallwalls has been dedicated to promoting artists from multiple backgrounds and...
in Buffalo in the U.S. It is still being regularly screened at museums and film festivals worldwide.
Further reading
- Editors: Allan, Yoran; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah,Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide, Wallflower Press, 2002 ISBN 1-90336452-3
- Editors: Ehmke, Ronald and Licata, Elizabeth, Consider the Alternatives: 20 Years of Contemporary Art at Hallwalls, Hallwalls Publishing, 1996 ISBN 0-936739-20-7