HPFF24 – JÜRGEN BRÜNING

Following last year’s success of the retrospective of NO SKIN OFF MY ASS, this year we welcome as a guest the producer and director of that very film and many others, as well as the founder of the Pornfilmfestival Berlin (PFFB), Jürgen Brüning!

Jürgen has chosen to bring us three films that can serve as a synthesis of his cinematic career. The inaugural event will commence on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 21:00 (replica on Monday, April 29 at 19:00) with the film/manifesto THE RASPBERRY REICH by Bruce LaBruce, produced by Brüning, a full-fledged queercore parody about a group of terrorists who want to emulate the actions of the RAF (Red Army Faction). Continuing on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 21:00 with KLAPPE, a pastiche film full of reflections on contemporary society, in which Brüning, as director, takes a look back at his career; this is followed at 22:30 by a 1997 porn film from Brüning’s label, CAZZO FILM: PRALLE LEDERHOSEN, directed by the mysterious Jürgen Anger, with unexpected fairy tale references.

We also remind that Jürgen will be a part of INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS JURY, alongside Mtt Duranti and Gabor.


THE RASPBERRY REICH
The Raspberry Reich is a 2004 film by director Bruce LaBruce which explores what LaBruce calls “terrorist chic”, cult dynamics, and the “innate radical potential of homosexual expression”. A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several homosexual men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.


KLAPPE
Jürgen Brüning samples and remixes fragments of video material from his work as an independent filmmaker and producer (including those for Bruce LaBruce and Shu Lea Cheang) with pop culture references borrowed from around the world, composing a video essay on gay identity.


PRALLE LEDERHOSEN – BULGING BAVARIANS
Black Superboy and Prince Blond get lost in the Magic Forest. Who’s the hottest of them all? Seven horny Lumberjacks strip off their lederhosen and fuck everyone in sight.