Bruce LaBruce’s Sexy New Film “The Visitor” Screens At Beacon

March 17, 2025• byMichael Strangeways

The Seattle Erotica Cinema Society has been bringing deliciously sexy adult films to Seattle audiences of all persuasions for many years. They’ve just lost their longtime home at the Grand Illusion Cinema in the University District which is of course being torn down to build ugly new crap. But, SECS will continue to program events in the area including the Seattle premiere of queer filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s newest film, THE VISITOR which is opening internationally this month.

Bruce LaBruce is the very naughty Canadian filmmaker who has titillated audiences since the early 1990s with films like No Skin Off My Ass, Super 8 1/2, Hustler White, L.A. Zombie, Gerontophilia, The Misandrists and Saint-Narcisse. But, his films are not only sexy, they’re revolutionary and throught provoking. From his own mouth:

“If you are going to make a film about sexual revolution, it’s best to put your Marxism where your mouth is and make the movie sexually explicit, or even better, pornographic, prioritising praxis over theory.”
– Bruce LaBruce

You can check out THE VISITOR on Saturday, March 22nd at 7pm and Wednesday, March 26th at 4:30pm at The Beacon Cinema, 4405 Rainier Ave South in Columbia City. Tickets at: https://thebeacon.film/calendar/movie/secs-fest-presents-the-visitor

More about The Visitor:

THE VISITOR is a British-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film TEOREMA. Pasolini’s enigmatic protagonist, known to everyone as “the visitor”, arrives at the house of an upper-class family and seduces each family member one after the other. When he suddenly departs, he leaves behind an emptiness for which the rest attempt to compensate in different ways. In Bruce LaBruce’s THE VISITOR, it is a refugee who washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. He is one of several identical-looking men who simultaneously emerge from suitcases in other locations around the city. Dressed in the guise of a homeless man, he arrives at the house of an upper-class family and gets to know the maid. When she passes him off as her nephew, the family invites him to also work for them as a live-in servant. The guest makes love with each of the residents of the house one after the other, depicted in explicit sex scenes. Each member of the household experiences a radical sexual and spiritual transformation.

The Seattle Erotica Cinema Society brings world-class erotic films to Seattle audiences throughout the year, inspiring diverse communities to engage in adult conversations about sex. SECS Fest, an annual sex-positive festival celebrating the artistry of erotic cinema, will be held at the Beacon Cinema in Fall 2025! For more info, see: https://www.secsfest.org/

About the Director
Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist based in Toronto but working internationally. Along with a number of short films, he has written and directed fourteen feature films, including Gerontophilia, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in 2013. As a photographer he has had numerous gallery shows around the world, including a photo exhibit called “Obscenity” at La Fresh Gallery in Madrid which caused a national ruckus in Spain. His feature film L.A. Zombie premiered in competition at the Locarno film festival in 2010 and was subsequently banned in Australia.
LaBruce has had a number of notable film retrospectives, including one at the TIFF/Bell Lighthouse under the auspices of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014, one at MoMA in New York in 2015, and one at the Cinematheque Quebecois in Montreal in 2022. His indie feature Saint-Narcisse was named one of the top ten films of 2021 by John Waters in Artforum. His porn feature, “The Affairs of Lidia,” was released in 2022. His photography book, “Death Book,” was published by Baron Book in 2021. A new book of his photography called “Photo Ephemera,” in two volumes, was released in 2022.

Director: Bruce LaBruce
Writer: Bruce LaBruce Co-Writers: Alex Babboni, Victor Fraga
Cast: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Ray Filar, Kurtis Lincoln, Luca Federici
Executive Prodcer: a/political
Producers: Alex Babboni, Victor Fraga
Director of Photography: Jack Hamilton
Composer: Hannah Holland
Intimacy Coordinator: Lidia Ravviso
Run Time: 101 minutes

Check out the not particularly safe for work trailer:

https://thevisitor.film/trailer

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.