The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Synopsis

Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre- and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV, projects which transformed the art/music/performance scene. Defying artistic boundaries even further, Genesis also re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology, and in 2000, he began a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye, who remains his other half and artistic partner—even after her death. In Genesis’s most ambitious and subversive performance to date, he became a she in an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third, what s/he calls the Pandrogyne.  In her artfully crafted début feature, Marie Losier, portrays a transcendent love story, conveying beauty, dignity and devotion from a perspective never before seen on film.

Director Biography

Born in France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. She studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France) and Fine Art in New York City. She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.