Genesis Breyer P-Orridge speaks after The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye screening at the Walker Art Center from Brad Elliott on Vimeo.
Filmed by Brad Elliott Marie Losier(Director) & Genesis Breyer P. Orridge took questions from the audience after the screening of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on April 4th, 2012 .
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Adopt films nabs documentary "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" as first acquisition
Adopt films nabs documentary as first acquisition
By Tim Molloy
Wed Sep 7, 2011 12:49pm EDT
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Adopt Films, a new independent distribution company formed by October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky and former exhibitor Tim Grady, have announced their first acquisition, the award-winning documentary "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye."
The company plans to release French-American filmmaker Marie Losier's film in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2012.
Adopt Films, which will be based in New York, plans to acquire independent English-language films, both narrative and documentary, as well as foreign language films.
"I truly feel this might be the single best time to launch a new independent distribution company since Bingham Ray and I plotted out October in my then-living room in Sherman Oaks in 1990," said Lipsky. "Our focus at Adopt will be on films that have theatrical potential, first and foremost. I'm not a glass half-full kind of guy about the ongoing potential theatrical audience for independent films, I'm a glass three-quarters-full kind of guy."
He said he hoped Adopt's first releases would be as eclectic and high profile as such early October films as "Adam's Rib," "The Tune," and "Tous les matins du monde."
"Adopt will be in a better position to fully exploit our films in all media because we'll have fully exploited each film's table-setting theatrical rights first," Grady added.
Added Losier: "I am so happy to have met a ball of energy, ready to put all their talent, passion and dreams into my first feature film! This is going to be a wonderful adventure and a precious honor to be the first Adopt Films release."
Lipsky and Grady negotiated the deal with Losier and her producing and business partners Steve Holmgren and Martin Marquet. The film tells the story of a love affair between British musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, founder of industrial bands COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and New York performance artist Lady Jaye (Jacqueline Breyer).
The film premiered at this year's Berlin Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Teddy and Caligari Awards. It was an official selection at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW), Tribeca, Hot Docs (Toronto), and San Francisco International Film Festivals.
Lipsky began his distribution career with "A Woman Under the Influence," working with his mentor, John Cassavetes. He was an executive at New Yorker Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Skouras Pictures.
He is also a filmmaker, whose films include "Twelve Thirty," "Childhood's End," and the 2006 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition selection "Flannel Pajamas."
By Tim Molloy
Wed Sep 7, 2011 12:49pm EDT
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Adopt Films, a new independent distribution company formed by October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky and former exhibitor Tim Grady, have announced their first acquisition, the award-winning documentary "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye."
The company plans to release French-American filmmaker Marie Losier's film in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2012.
Adopt Films, which will be based in New York, plans to acquire independent English-language films, both narrative and documentary, as well as foreign language films.
"I truly feel this might be the single best time to launch a new independent distribution company since Bingham Ray and I plotted out October in my then-living room in Sherman Oaks in 1990," said Lipsky. "Our focus at Adopt will be on films that have theatrical potential, first and foremost. I'm not a glass half-full kind of guy about the ongoing potential theatrical audience for independent films, I'm a glass three-quarters-full kind of guy."
He said he hoped Adopt's first releases would be as eclectic and high profile as such early October films as "Adam's Rib," "The Tune," and "Tous les matins du monde."
"Adopt will be in a better position to fully exploit our films in all media because we'll have fully exploited each film's table-setting theatrical rights first," Grady added.
Added Losier: "I am so happy to have met a ball of energy, ready to put all their talent, passion and dreams into my first feature film! This is going to be a wonderful adventure and a precious honor to be the first Adopt Films release."
Lipsky and Grady negotiated the deal with Losier and her producing and business partners Steve Holmgren and Martin Marquet. The film tells the story of a love affair between British musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, founder of industrial bands COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and New York performance artist Lady Jaye (Jacqueline Breyer).
The film premiered at this year's Berlin Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Teddy and Caligari Awards. It was an official selection at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW), Tribeca, Hot Docs (Toronto), and San Francisco International Film Festivals.
Lipsky began his distribution career with "A Woman Under the Influence," working with his mentor, John Cassavetes. He was an executive at New Yorker Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Skouras Pictures.
He is also a filmmaker, whose films include "Twelve Thirty," "Childhood's End," and the 2006 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition selection "Flannel Pajamas."
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
More video up from Q and A session at 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival showing of "The ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye"
More video up from Q&A session with Genesis and Marie Losier following the screening of "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" at the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival.3/23/11
Here is the short clip i recorded of the opening
My camera ran out of memory space!
Here is the short clip i recorded of the opening
My camera ran out of memory space!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Genesis And Marie Losier NBC interview
Tribeca Film Festival: The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye
Marie Losier, Director of "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," and the subject of the film, performance artist Genesis P-Orridge discuss their movie.
Marie Losier, Director of "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," and the subject of the film, performance artist Genesis P-Orridge discuss their movie.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Genesis p-orridge and Marie Losier Q and A segment At the Ann Arbor film fest screening of "The ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" 3/23/11
Genesis p-orridge and Marie Losier Q and A segment At the Ann Arbor film fest screening of "The ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" 3/23/11...My camera ran out of memory space so here is the opening clip of the Q and A.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Website launched for Marie Losier's BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE film
http://www.balladofgenesisandladyjaye.com/
Website launched for the forthcoming BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE film.
Upcoming german screenings...keep checking the site for more info!
“He’s the only person I’ve ever met who I’d hero worshipped, that was exactly how I’d expected him to be. He was everything that I’d hoped him to be. Which was incredible. Inhumanly intelligent. I was interested in him primarily as a character, the way he lived, he was a ‘more than real’ real life character. A phenomena. I was already into he idea that the most important work is the way you live and you should live it as a work and try to make each aspect of it as interesting as you can.”
–William S. Burroughs on Genesis P-Orridge
“Your film is a lovely, fragile & tough piece of art. The most newest documentary and most newest musical and most newest slapstick-avant garde-cinema verité that contemporary cinema can give to the world. This kind of joycean monologue, this incredible and touching people, the other side of our terrible consume societies, thinking, loving, laughing…
Maybe you can make an injectable version? We need an injection of this kind of life every morning just before to heading out to face the world!”
Sergio Wolf, Director of BAFICI, Buenos Aires Film Festival, 2011.
Marie Losier’s “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” is a totally
unusual “home movie” about a totally unusual home; a fantastical love
story about a fantastical love that dares to speak its unusual name:
“Pandrogyny. Like Balzac’s Séraphita-Séraphitus, Genesis-Lady Jaye
attempt to pass beyond earthly love on a journey that takes them , in
Balzac’s phrase, “on the road to the skies.”
Jonathan Cott, Author of “Dylan,” and “Conversations with Glenn Gould”
Marie Losier's "My story with Genesis P-Orridge"
I first saw Genesis perform seven years ago, at the Knitting Factory, the now legendary club in Tribeca. Watching him perform was pure enchantment. His words from the stage hovered somewhere between song and speech, deeply poetic, primitive, at times frightful. It completely hypnotized me. I knew immediately, I had to film this perplexing and powerful figure, perhaps as a way of understanding what I had experienced, but moreover to have proof of the existence of a being I was convinced had arrived from somewhere else!
In a typically miraculous New York City coincidence, I met Genesis at a gallery opening in Soho, in one of those sardine-can spaces where you can barely walk and hardly breathe. Being relatively small, I got pressed into a corner where I inadvertently stepped on someone’s toes. I turned to apologize and there was Genesis smiling, his goldcapped teeth glittering down over me. We spoke briefly, but in that time I felt something special had passed between us. He asked me about my films and gave me his email. Whether it was fate or pure clumsiness, this marked the beginning of an artistic collaboration that would develop into a close friendship.
Like many others who have encountered him, I saw in Genesis the simple and profound notion that the manner in which you live your life is the highest and most unimpeachable form of art that exists.“My project is not about gender” he said. “Some feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body, others like a woman trapped in a man’s body. The pandrogyne says, I just feel trapped in a body. The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around. Pandrogyny is all about the mind, consciousness.” Both Genesis and Lady Jaye were born with life changing illnesses, imprinting upon them from an early age an incredibly complex relationship to their bodies. Later in life, they became gender variant activists, their mutating appearance based on gestural aesthetics, a living project documented through their collaborative paintings, photographs, writings and performances.
The passing of Lady Jaye is central to my film. I thought this tragic event would prevent me from continuing to shoot, but to Genesis, the completion of this film would be the most appropriate way to honor his love and life with Jaye, a message of hope and solidarity with artists and lovers everywhere, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. By allowing me unprecedented access over these past many years to film their professional and personal lives, I believe I have material that transcends most fiction films, but whose message is ultimately grounded in the most humanistic and basic of desires: the affirmation of love.
Website launched for the forthcoming BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE film.
Upcoming german screenings...keep checking the site for more info!
“He’s the only person I’ve ever met who I’d hero worshipped, that was exactly how I’d expected him to be. He was everything that I’d hoped him to be. Which was incredible. Inhumanly intelligent. I was interested in him primarily as a character, the way he lived, he was a ‘more than real’ real life character. A phenomena. I was already into he idea that the most important work is the way you live and you should live it as a work and try to make each aspect of it as interesting as you can.”
–William S. Burroughs on Genesis P-Orridge
“Your film is a lovely, fragile & tough piece of art. The most newest documentary and most newest musical and most newest slapstick-avant garde-cinema verité that contemporary cinema can give to the world. This kind of joycean monologue, this incredible and touching people, the other side of our terrible consume societies, thinking, loving, laughing…
Maybe you can make an injectable version? We need an injection of this kind of life every morning just before to heading out to face the world!”
Sergio Wolf, Director of BAFICI, Buenos Aires Film Festival, 2011.
Marie Losier’s “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” is a totally
unusual “home movie” about a totally unusual home; a fantastical love
story about a fantastical love that dares to speak its unusual name:
“Pandrogyny. Like Balzac’s Séraphita-Séraphitus, Genesis-Lady Jaye
attempt to pass beyond earthly love on a journey that takes them , in
Balzac’s phrase, “on the road to the skies.”
Jonathan Cott, Author of “Dylan,” and “Conversations with Glenn Gould”
Marie Losier's "My story with Genesis P-Orridge"
I first saw Genesis perform seven years ago, at the Knitting Factory, the now legendary club in Tribeca. Watching him perform was pure enchantment. His words from the stage hovered somewhere between song and speech, deeply poetic, primitive, at times frightful. It completely hypnotized me. I knew immediately, I had to film this perplexing and powerful figure, perhaps as a way of understanding what I had experienced, but moreover to have proof of the existence of a being I was convinced had arrived from somewhere else!
In a typically miraculous New York City coincidence, I met Genesis at a gallery opening in Soho, in one of those sardine-can spaces where you can barely walk and hardly breathe. Being relatively small, I got pressed into a corner where I inadvertently stepped on someone’s toes. I turned to apologize and there was Genesis smiling, his goldcapped teeth glittering down over me. We spoke briefly, but in that time I felt something special had passed between us. He asked me about my films and gave me his email. Whether it was fate or pure clumsiness, this marked the beginning of an artistic collaboration that would develop into a close friendship.
Like many others who have encountered him, I saw in Genesis the simple and profound notion that the manner in which you live your life is the highest and most unimpeachable form of art that exists.“My project is not about gender” he said. “Some feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body, others like a woman trapped in a man’s body. The pandrogyne says, I just feel trapped in a body. The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around. Pandrogyny is all about the mind, consciousness.” Both Genesis and Lady Jaye were born with life changing illnesses, imprinting upon them from an early age an incredibly complex relationship to their bodies. Later in life, they became gender variant activists, their mutating appearance based on gestural aesthetics, a living project documented through their collaborative paintings, photographs, writings and performances.
The passing of Lady Jaye is central to my film. I thought this tragic event would prevent me from continuing to shoot, but to Genesis, the completion of this film would be the most appropriate way to honor his love and life with Jaye, a message of hope and solidarity with artists and lovers everywhere, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. By allowing me unprecedented access over these past many years to film their professional and personal lives, I believe I have material that transcends most fiction films, but whose message is ultimately grounded in the most humanistic and basic of desires: the affirmation of love.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Message from Marie Losier concerning THE BALLAD OF LADY JAYE AND GENESIS
Thanks to everyone who funded the film through kickstarter!We have been able to help a work of ART see thee light of day...
Marie's message of thanks follows below
“Dear Friends,
THANK YOU for making my first Kickstarter project reach it’s goal in only the first 3 weeks since it launched! I am honored to see that this project has gained so much of your support and I’m endlessly grateful for your trust and enthusiasm in my work and for being there.
The Kickstarter campaign is still active till the beginning of June, (we never thought we could reach $4000 so quickly and thus set the duration for 3 months!)
In that light, I have decided to still pursue more funds for the next 2 months, as the total of the budget needed to complete the film is roughly $50.000 (for full project info, please click here).
The more pledges we receive, the closer we get to finalize this film. So if you haven’t already, please take a look at the wonderful rewards available in return for a contribution, even the smallest amount, will accelerate the completion of this project.
Again. I am so thankful for your support.
Have a wonderful spring!
Amitiés,
Marie”
Photo of Marie Losier and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at the screening of
THE BALLAD OF LADY JAYE AND GENESIS
Marie's message of thanks follows below
“Dear Friends,
THANK YOU for making my first Kickstarter project reach it’s goal in only the first 3 weeks since it launched! I am honored to see that this project has gained so much of your support and I’m endlessly grateful for your trust and enthusiasm in my work and for being there.
The Kickstarter campaign is still active till the beginning of June, (we never thought we could reach $4000 so quickly and thus set the duration for 3 months!)
In that light, I have decided to still pursue more funds for the next 2 months, as the total of the budget needed to complete the film is roughly $50.000 (for full project info, please click here).
The more pledges we receive, the closer we get to finalize this film. So if you haven’t already, please take a look at the wonderful rewards available in return for a contribution, even the smallest amount, will accelerate the completion of this project.
Again. I am so thankful for your support.
Have a wonderful spring!
Amitiés,
Marie”
Photo of Marie Losier and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at the screening of
THE BALLAD OF LADY JAYE AND GENESIS
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
you can help fund the Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye film!
UPDATE: 3/21/10
here are the curent stats for the funding of the film...ALMOST THERE! Lets make this happen!
here is a message from genesis from the comments section of this post !
Dearest Friends,What a WONDER-FULL surprise! We decided recently to use google alerts as we so often get told of interesting postings too late to see them. That is how we found your pages. We felt we should write and say you are doing a marvellous job. So generous and loving. A NEW WAY ON. Marie's film was central to Lady Jaye's hopes for a future. S/he told me many times that all s/he wanted for her SELF was to be remembered as "...one of the great love affairs.." Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. So we also write to encourage you all to pledge at least $5 each to Marie Losier's film. Lady Jaye believed only Marie could make the right movie of our lives and ideas. What WE have already seen is absolutely amazing. Marie needs all of you to assist her now to edit and finish her movie. It will be the first of a new kind of documentary a mixture of Fellini, Anger,Godard and more. PLEASE for Marie, for my "Other Half" Lady Jaye send donations to Marie Losier at Kickstarter. You will be thrilled with what that will enable us all to see. cari saluti, GENESIS
here is the trailer !
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye - Trailer from Marie Losier on Vimeo.
message from marie losier at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marielosier/ballad-of-genesis-and-lady-jaye
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been a key figure of the underground music scene for over 30 years. A cult artist in prepunk and post-punk groups Throbbing Gristle (1975 to 1981) and Psychic TV (1981 to present), he is considered to be the father of industrial music and a pioneer of acid house and techno. Not content with breaking new ground in music, Genesis has also used his position at the limits of society to challenge the very fundamentals of biology. In 1993, Genesis underwent surgery to alter his gender to more closely resemble his love Lady Jaye, born Jacqueline Breyer, his wife and artistic partner for close to 15 years. The project ‘Creating the Pandrogyne’, is an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third. Tragically, Lady Jaye passed away in 2007, leaving Genesis devastated, though resilient. Since then, s/he has ceaselessly sought after the physical ideal: a perfect mirroring of Lady Jaye’s unique beauty.
This film is about a transformation, a very unusual love story, addressing issues of identity, gender politics and artistic commitment. Through a labyrinthine mise-en-scène of interviews, home movies and performance footage, I hope to tell the story of what I believe to be a truly new kind of Romantic Consciousness, one in defiance of the daily dehumanization of the body by the pervasive presence of advertising and pornography, my attempt to convey beauty, dignity and devotion from a perspective most people will have never seen before on film.
A kaleidoscopic collection of moving surfaces, composed of interviews (Orlan, Peaches, Peter Christopherson, Gibby Haynes), role plays, concerts and his day to day life, comes together to paint a multi-faceted profile of this pioneer of industrial music and in doing so, exposes the abundant yet inherently elusive nature of his creativity.
CURRENT SITUATION OF THE PROJECT:
I have been filming Genesis for the past four years, and I'm about to begin editing the film. My goal is to finish by the end of 2010 and premiere at a major film festival in 2011. The work in progress of the film has been presented in 2009 at The Centre George Pompidou in April to open “Hors Pistes”, as well as at the Cinemathèque Francaise in Paris this past September.
The film is almost entirely self produced over the past 4 years. At this point in the project, I need to secure as much support as possible in order to complete the feature by the end of the year.
WHAT IS NEEDED FOR COMPLETION:
1) Co-Editor - I not only shot all of the footage for the film, but I'm also editing. Due to the large amount of footage I've acquired, I need the help of second pair of eyes, ears, and hands, not to mention an additional brain to help put together my first feature.
2) Sound Engineering - Music is a crucial component of this project and I need funds to hire a sound technician to master the sound.
3) Transfer - Most of the footage is shot on both 16 mm & HD (for sync sound & interviews). The final cut will be in HD, and thus I have to transfer some of the 16 mm to digital format for the final print.
PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Although I am asking for $4000, it's only part of what is needed to complete the project. Whether you can help by making a pledge or not, please spread the word about this campaign, I am endlessly grateful for your help and support.
I hope you will enjoy some of the rewards I have made and worked on with Genesis, Tony Conrad and many dear friends.
REWARD DETAILS:
a "Papal Brokendance" 4x6 photo signed by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Signed copy of "Tony Conrad / Genesis Breyer P-Orridge - Taking Issue" Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, released by Dais Records.
Signed limited edition Genesis Breyer P-Orridge "30 Years of Being Cut Up" Exhibition catalog. Full color, 128 pages, with hardcover, pull-out poster, and two postcards.
Silk screen print 11x17 portrait of Genesis from one of the film shoots
OUTTAKES photograph from the 2008 exhibition at Luxe Gallery, created in collaboration with Bernard Yenelouis
Marie Losier, 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.
http://www.marielosier.net/
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