29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE: PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE
THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
by Marie Losier
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 72'
Celebrated as one of the founders of industrial music, Genesis P-Orridge has helped transform rock and electronic music, as he expands the horizon of the performing arts. In 2000, he began his most radical performance: by undergoing a series of plastic surgery operations, Genesis slowly transformed himself into Lady Jaye, his artistic partner and the love of his life. As he becomes her, through a triumphant act of artistic self-expression, Genesis is also forced to witness the death of his companion. “To Genesis, finishing the film was the best way to celebrate his love and his life with Jaye; it is a message of hope and solidarity for all artists and all those who love, regardless of genre or sexual orientation. Since I was given the privilege of witnessing first-hand the many years of their shared professional and personal life, I was able to gather material which goes beyond that of many fiction films but whose message is in essence rooted in the most human and basic of desires: the confirmation of love.”
Biography
film director
Marie Losier
Marie Losier (France, 1972) studied literature at the University of Nanterre and art in New York. She has made a series of films dedicated to avant-garde directors, composers and musicians like Jonas Mekas, Alan Vega Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin and Richard Foreman. In 2011 with The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, dedicated to Genesis P. Orridge, she was selected at the Berlinale and the Torino Film Festival. Her works are regularly shown at prestigious festivals and exhibition areas like the Tate Modern, the MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, the Berlinale and the Cinémathèque française. In 2015 she presented at Festival the collective film Aqui, em Lisboa. In November 2018 MoMA dedicated her works a complete retrospective.
FILMOGRAFIA
Eat Your Makeup! (cm, 2005), Tony Conrad, Dreaminimalist (cm, 2008), The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (doc., 2011), Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (doc., cm, 2013), Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (cm, 2014), Aqui em Lisboa - Episódios de vida de uma cidade (coregia/codirectors Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, ep. L’oiseau de la nuit, cm, 2015)
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia, montaggio, costumi/director, cinematography, film editing, costume design
Marie Losier
musica/music
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Bryin Dall, Ptv3
suono/sound
Bryin Dall
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Big Boy (Breyer P-Orridge)
produttori/producers
Marie Losier, Steve Holmgren, Martin Marquet
vendita all’estero/world sales
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