Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Opens October 8
Part of: Music Box of Horrors: The Final Chapter
2008 94 min DCP
Co-presented by Facets, in conjunction with their The Revolution is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce series
Director Bruce LaBruce in person to introduce the film!
Gerber/Hart will be tabling in the lobby with a pop-up of queer archival materials from their collections before and after the screenings
Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions for a zombie film. The director, an eccentric bohemian, begins making a film about Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. As the final, orgiastic scene of the film is being shot, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior. Director Bruce LaBruce toys with genre conventions, combining different media, including a humorous film-within-the-film, while creating a new, sexy, hyperpoliticized zombie mythology.
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