Various - The Ballad Of Genesis and Lady Jaye

music soundtrack to the intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer genesis breyer p-orridge (throbbing gristle, psychic tv) and his other half and collaborator, lady jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'pandrogyne' project. featuring music by psychic tv, thee majesty and his other collaborations. 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 (1969-1976), throbbing gristle (1975-1981), and psychic tv (1981 to present), all of which merged performance art with rock music. in 2000, genesis began a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, lady jaye (ne jacqueline breyer), who remained his other half and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. it was the ultimate act of devotion, and genesis's most risky, ambitious, and subversive performance to date: he became a she in a triumphant act of artistic self-expression. genesis called this project 'creating the pandrogyne' influenced, like so much of genesis work, by brion gysin and william burroughs cut ups , it was an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third. this is a love story, and a portrait of two lives that illustrate the transformative powers of both love and art. marie losier brings to us the most intimate details of genesis's extraordinary, uncanny world. in warm and intimate images captured handheld, losier crafts a labyrinthine mise-en-scene of interviews, home movies, and performance footage. the ballad of genesis and lady jaye documents a truly new brand of romantic consciousness, one in defiance of the daily dehumanization of the body by the pervasive presence of advertising and pornography, conveying beauty, dignity and devotion from a perspective never before seen on film.