A Title Does Not Ask, but Demands That You Make a Choice: On the Otherwise Films of Bruce LaBruce

Two things are fascinating about this quiz: (1) the choice that is demanded, that a film be either art or pornography (a strict evaluation normally reserved for courts determining obscenity standards; let it be clear: one is, in a very literal sense, judging these images3); and (2) the teasing gimmick of the quiz, which is that the ontology of the images cannot be reliably demonstrated by simply looking at an isolated film still, as though the fantasy is held out that were one able to spectate in another light or context, or view the film in its entirety, one could tell.