Bruce LaBruce's Movie Premiere Sex Party

Why is the UK getting all the sexy fun stuff this year? First it's Kit Harington's penis -- now queer punk underground filmmaking legend Bruce LaBruce is turning the premiere of his new pornographic art movie into a sex party. The movie is called The Visitor, and it is his XXX-rated take on Pasolini's film Teorama -- that tale as old as time where a hot stranger comes to stay with a family and proceeds to fuck every member of the family, the end. 

On January 11th the film is opening in the U.K. with an "Immersive Cinema Experience" at "an undisclosed location" where attendees will be tossed into a series of spaces recreating scenes in the film that "aims to revive the participatory culture of historical porn theaters." Normally this wouldn't be my scene (I am a shy little wallflower) but fuck it the world is falling apart -- given what is happening in the U.S. this January maybe I should just get on a plane. Or maybe BLB can be kind enough to take this traveling sex circus on the road. We're gonna need things to keep our minds (et cetera) occupied next year, man! Anyway below is the trailer (the film doesn't have a U.S. date yet) and then hit the jump for the full press release...

Underground Icon Bruce LaBruce Launches Immersive Cinema Experience

Based on His New Film THE VISITOR

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, JANUARY 11 2025
• The installation, coinciding with the UK premiere of THE VISITOR, aims to revive the participatory culture of historical porn theaters.
• The Visitor is a reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema (1968) with a refugee as the main character.
• Participants can star in live porn set while watched by attendees.

On January 11, 2025, arts organization A/POLITICAL and Klub Verboten, known for their pro-pervert spaces and sex parties, present a new work by Bruce LaBruce: an immersive pornographic experience, to celebrate the UK premiere of LaBruce’s latest film THE VISITOR, a hardcore retelling of Pasolini’s Teorema. The event will transform a traditional premiere into a space of open sexual encounter, where audiences can embody and mirror the film’s storytelling through their own possible sexual experience.

“This is a radical collision of political pornography and participatory art that transforms a traditional film premiere into a living sexual experience, where cinema audiences are invited to mirror the journey of the family in THE VISITOR,” says Bruce LaBruce.

“We’re bringing back those old porn theaters, those cruising spaces where watching and f--king weren’t separate things. In THE VISITOR, a bourgeois family has a sexual awakening - now the premiere audience has the opportunity to experience something similar. You’re not just watching anymore, you’re part of it.”

This one-off event will have three distinct-yet-interconnected spaces. A full screening of Bruce LaBruce’s new film THE VISITOR includes an optional “play area” allowing viewers the option to have sex and physically engage with the film’s themes as they unfold on screen.

The afterparty space will recreate the film’s set, enabling guests to engage in sexual acts within the world of THE VISITOR while being observed through live video feeds by afterparty attendees.

A screening room showing scenes from THE VISITOR on multiple screens will offer a space where guests can engage with the film’s most explicit scenes in an environment designed for sexual encounters.

These three spaces create a circuit of viewing and participation that dissolves traditional boundaries between audience and artwork.

“A/POLITICAL works with artists who push the boundaries to expose mechanisms of power. Bruce LaBruce follows in the tradition of Pasolini, using sexually explicit content as a tool for political confrontation,” a spokesperson for A/POLITICAL said.

Bruce LaBruce’s THE VISITOR is a radical, hardcore reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema (1968). Shot and produced in Conservative Britain, the film subverts current right-wing media narratives about immigration. Where mainstream discourse often portrays refugees through a lens of fear and sexual threat, LaBruce flips this narrative. His visitor, cast as a refugee, enters the home of a sexually repressed bourgeois British family, becoming a transformative force through sexual awakening. Each family member’s encounter with the visitor leads to profound personal liberation, challenging contemporary xenophobia while exploring themes of sexuality, class, and political power.

Foregrounding sexual liberation, as well as bi- and homosexual revolutions, Bruce LaBruce continues to challenge the dominant and arbitrary heteronormative paradigm.

“I’ve found that the best way to do this is to explore the sexual subtext of the original and make it as explicit as possible for maximum effect. I came to the conclusion that if you are going to make such a film, it’s best to put your Marxism where your mouth is and make the movie sexually explicit, or even better, pornographic, prioritizing praxis over theory,” says Bruce LaBruce.

THE VISITOR is a Bruce LaBruce film produced by A/POLITICAL and distributed by Circle Collective, co-organizers of the UK premiere. For more information, contact info@a-political.org

This reminds me that Bruce's 2018 porn film Flea Pit, which is ye olde standard about a group of folks getting off inside a movie theater -- is one of my favorite porn flicks of all time. (It also stars Bishop Black, who is the lead in The Visitor.)  TMI? Fuck off. This thing is hot as hell. I mean -- Pierre Emö AND Valentin Braun? Are you kidding me? Yum.