No Skin Off My Ass

A punk hairdresser with special tastes picks up a handsome young skinhead in a park in Toronto. He takes him home, undresses him, bathes him and locks him in his bedroom. The skin manages to escape to his sister's flat, who immediately uses him as an actor for an underground lesbian film. Remorseful, the skin returns to the hairdresser to fulfil his own sexual desires.

Punks, a skin, explicit sex, SM and black humour. The first film by Bruce LaBruce, who plays the hairdresser himself, has lost none of its lustful power even after 30 years. G.B. Jones, who co-founded the notorious queercore fanzine J.D.s with LaBruce, can be seen in the role of the sister. ‘No Skin Off My Ass’ is considered a radical forerunner of New Queer Cinema and politically and aesthetically contradicts every hetero norm. Originally shot on grainy Super 8 and featuring a wild soundtrack by punk bands such as Frightwig and Beefeater, LaBruce's early masterpiece is being released on DVD for the first time in a digitally restored version.