Look up "iconoclast" in the dictionary and you might just find a photo of bad-boy Canadian director Bruce La Bruce.

Coming along at the time of the rise of the so-called "New Queer Cinema" in the early 1990s, La Bruce was considered an outsider even from that movement.

His hilarious and deliberately raw, profane films (Super 8 ½, Hustler White, Raspberry Reich) guaranteed him notoriety and gave film geeks plenty to discuss, but also placed him squarely outside the mainstream.

That's a place he seems to revel in as he moves back and forth between art films and gay pornography, often overlapping the two genres.

The evidence? His latest project, Otto: Up With Dead People, is about a gay zombie roaming the land of the living in search of love.

No word on how explicitly sexual this one will be, but "very" seems a likely possibility.

Last update: 12-19-2007 21:53