Bruce La Bruce’s ‘Otto; Or Up With Dead People’The final PLGFF weekend starts with a nuanced historical drama set in 1950s South Africa at the dawn of apartheid. The World Unseen follows Amina as she bucks tradition to open a cafe with her “colored” business partner. When she falls in love with a traditional wife and mother her world is truly turned upside down.
The 9 pm movie moves into more irreverent territory with Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; Or Up With Dead People.
A young German zombie is found wandering Berlin and is taken in by a filmmaker and her girlfriend who are currently working on a politico-porno-zombie masterpiece. But as Otto begins to discover his living past through a found wallet he meets with an ex-lover at a schoolyard with apparently devastating results. What, exactly, would be devastating to a zombie, however, is left unsaid.
After the screening, you can experience a different kind of artistry from the legendary Bruce LaBruce as he switches media to get all you film geeks out of your seats and onto the dance floor by taking over the decks down the street at Blow Pony. Portland’s current reigning queerest party party pad will provide the intimate setting as usual at Eagle Underground (27 NW 6th at Couch), where you can drink and frolic with all the abandon that comes from 2 floors of sweaty queers crammed into club with a famous film director. It’s time to get out all those little wiggles that have been building as you’ve sat in the dark…
