The 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which will run April 2-6 at the Logan Theater, will be extra special this year. Why? Because Mike Everleth, the Executive Editor of the Underground Film Journal, is sitting on this year’s festival jury! And looking over the fest lineup below, he is incredibly excited to witness this visual extravaganza of revolutionary cinematic madness. (Other jurors are Brian Chankin, Therese Grisham and Alison Cuddy.)
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
- 3/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Best known to electronic music fans as one-half of iconic band Skinny Puppy (who also just released Weapon, one of their best albums in years), cEvin Key, alias Kevin Crompton, has also maintained several unique side projects, the most notable of which being his long-running experimental outfit Download. Formed in 1994 by Key, Phil “Philth” Western and Skinny Puppy member Dwayne Goettel (who passed away shortly after the release of their debut Ep), the band has seen input from a wide range of industrial music talent, including Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV), Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air) and frequent Skinny Puppy collaborator Ken “Hiwatt” Marshall. The core unit of Key and Western remains to this day, and their latest full-length album Lingam upholds their core of complex beat-driven electronica as the foundation for surreal and hypnotic soundscapes, constructed from a wide spectrum of digital and analog sources. If...
- 6/12/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Documentary on ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Opens April 13, 2012 at Nuart in Los Angeles
Adopt Films presents The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye opening April 13, 2012 at Landmark.s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement. In Person: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and director Marie Losier will speak to audiences at evening shows on Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14.
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. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of .industrial music., his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand...
Opens April 13, 2012 at Nuart in Los Angeles
Adopt Films presents The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye opening April 13, 2012 at Landmark.s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement. In Person: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and director Marie Losier will speak to audiences at evening shows on Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14.
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. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of .industrial music., his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand...
- 3/13/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tgif bitches! I set off for the magical land of queso and breakfast tacos tonight -- yep! Going to Austin for SXSW. But not without a little Friday In Theaters to set you off right. It just wouldn't be right to depart without a mild rant about the "John Carter" marketing campaign! Yes, this weekend the questionable Civil War/Sci-Fi "John Carter" muscles its way into theaters, as well as Elizabeth Olsen spooky movie "Silent House," and funny attractive people with problems rom-com "Friends with Kids."
Time for a quiz! Based off the "John Carter" billboards and posters plastered about your town, what do you think the movie is about? A) a caveman hunting elephants B) a Roman slave forced to fight prehistoric creatures in the Coliseum C) a Confederate soldier who gets beamed to Mars after finding a medallion in a cave, where he befriends some aliens, gets a princess humanoid girlfriend,...
Time for a quiz! Based off the "John Carter" billboards and posters plastered about your town, what do you think the movie is about? A) a caveman hunting elephants B) a Roman slave forced to fight prehistoric creatures in the Coliseum C) a Confederate soldier who gets beamed to Mars after finding a medallion in a cave, where he befriends some aliens, gets a princess humanoid girlfriend,...
- 3/9/2012
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Going beyond mere ideas of pansexuality, gender reassignment and transgenderdom, the documentary "The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye" centers on the relatively unique notion of pandrogeny -- the concept of a man and woman shedding their individuality and appearance and becoming one and the same, in part through plastic surgery. Raising all kinds of fascinating questions about the notions of identity, the Marie Losier-directed documentary is often bizarre, trangressive and ideologically challenging, but always engrossing.
Centering on the relationship between seminal experimental artist Genesis P-Orridge (industrial music forefather and founder of such atonal and dadaist musical groups as Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his/her late wife Jaye Breyer, while the film does act as part music documentary and part examination of self, identity and individuality (or lack thereof) this ballad, as its title suggests, is ultimately a deeply felt, albeit odd, love story. In documenting the titular pair's romance and relationship,...
Centering on the relationship between seminal experimental artist Genesis P-Orridge (industrial music forefather and founder of such atonal and dadaist musical groups as Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his/her late wife Jaye Breyer, while the film does act as part music documentary and part examination of self, identity and individuality (or lack thereof) this ballad, as its title suggests, is ultimately a deeply felt, albeit odd, love story. In documenting the titular pair's romance and relationship,...
- 3/9/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
The documentary “The Ballad Of Genesis & Lady Jaye” hits theaters in New York in limited release this weekend. It’s an utterly fascinating and bizarre (sometimes queasy) look at identity and pandrogny (review later this week) that happens to center around seminal experimental music figure Genesis P-Orridge, of atonal, industrial noisemakers Throbbing Gristle, who went on to form the still-experimental, but more palatable Psychic TV.
The soundtrack album from Sweet Nothing Records hits on March 12th. And while this writer can’t claim to be any kind of Psychic TV expert -- their discography has more than 33 studio albums ranging as far back as 1982, plus over 40 live albums -- one thing this soundtrack album reminds us is that for all their sonic collages, spoken word pieces and multi-media-collective and dada-ist leanings they could bust out a lovely, psychedelic tune in the vein of the Velvet Underground (or more recent example...
The soundtrack album from Sweet Nothing Records hits on March 12th. And while this writer can’t claim to be any kind of Psychic TV expert -- their discography has more than 33 studio albums ranging as far back as 1982, plus over 40 live albums -- one thing this soundtrack album reminds us is that for all their sonic collages, spoken word pieces and multi-media-collective and dada-ist leanings they could bust out a lovely, psychedelic tune in the vein of the Velvet Underground (or more recent example...
- 3/7/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Love can devour, enrapture, overtake and consume you, and while those are usually sentiments left to emotional descriptions of a relationship, the forthcoming documentary "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye" finds the passion between a couple going to bizarre and oddly touching physical realms. The documentary follows Genesis P-Orridge, Throbbing Gristle member and Psychic TV founder whose relationship to his partner Lady Jaye goes in directions that pushes more boundaries than anything he created musically. Starting in 2000, he began a number of sex change operations in order to more closely resemble Jaye, but that's not all. The act itself became a giant performance piece of sorts called "Creating the Pandrogyne" in which Geneis and Jaye gave up their own identities to create what they called a third identity. It's the kind of gender theory stuff we remember reading circa university/college but made very, very real. This one has been doing the.
- 12/22/2011
- The Playlist
Marie Losier's documentary tells the story of a couple. They happen to comprise Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, industrial music pioneer of the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, performance artist and dominatrix, who made their relationship an art project, dressing alike and having plastic surgery to look more alike, but really it's just another couple movie.
Rather than making you think how strange the central duo are/were (Lady Jaye died, or "dropped her body", in 2007), the film really makes you think how strange all couples are, pairs of more or less damaged individuals (as all individuals are damaged) who have managed to align their broken edges and form some kind of mutant whole.
Using archive film and interviews, more or less entirely without sync sound, Losier, a specialist in profiling avant-garde musicians, artists and filmmakers, creates a colorful and frenetic object that nicely encapsulates...
Rather than making you think how strange the central duo are/were (Lady Jaye died, or "dropped her body", in 2007), the film really makes you think how strange all couples are, pairs of more or less damaged individuals (as all individuals are damaged) who have managed to align their broken edges and form some kind of mutant whole.
Using archive film and interviews, more or less entirely without sync sound, Losier, a specialist in profiling avant-garde musicians, artists and filmmakers, creates a colorful and frenetic object that nicely encapsulates...
- 6/20/2011
- MUBI
From Morgan Spurlock to gripping portraits of activism, documentary has made a thrilling show of itself this year. Danny Leigh has the festival highlights
The first stroke of genius at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest was obvious every time you set foot outside – its relocation from November to June. With the evenings instantly lengthened and the sun dappling the Yorkshire rooftops, it felt like the cosmos was smiling on an event that, at a time of cash-strapped tension for much of the film industry, had a hugely upbeat atmosphere.
There were the obligatory star cameos (Albert Maysles, Morgan Spurlock, Nick Broomfield) – but such illuminations felt like adjuncts rather than the whole point of a festival on the up. If the countless TV execs had been buoyed by the BBC's recent hymn to non-fiction of "quality and complexity", then film-makers and the zesty young filmgoers who crowded the Showroom cinema also...
The first stroke of genius at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest was obvious every time you set foot outside – its relocation from November to June. With the evenings instantly lengthened and the sun dappling the Yorkshire rooftops, it felt like the cosmos was smiling on an event that, at a time of cash-strapped tension for much of the film industry, had a hugely upbeat atmosphere.
There were the obligatory star cameos (Albert Maysles, Morgan Spurlock, Nick Broomfield) – but such illuminations felt like adjuncts rather than the whole point of a festival on the up. If the countless TV execs had been buoyed by the BBC's recent hymn to non-fiction of "quality and complexity", then film-makers and the zesty young filmgoers who crowded the Showroom cinema also...
- 6/17/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
It's not quite horror, but we think you may like it. Check out these handpicked flix playing at SXSW for a change of pace. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Genesis P-Orridge, founder of bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and his partner/collaborator/soul mate Lady Jaye. Rather than having children, the two devoted their lives to plastic surgeries to make themselves look like one another, and in essence creating a new gender, pandrogyne. This documentary is a fascinating look at their lives, their music, and their living art project - themselves - that will forever live on in infamy. Super Another "average Joe turned superhero" flick, but this one is...
- 3/14/2011
- FEARnet
The 2011 Teddy Awards, a subprogram of the Berlinale that puts the spotlight on the fest's Lgbt/queer content, were announced tonight at a special "jubilee gala" at Tempelhof airport. Leading the pack were "Ausente" by Marco Berger, which won the best feature award, and best doc winner "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," the story of the pansexual couple (one, member of the bands Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle; ...
- 2/19/2011
- Indiewire
The 2011 SXSW Film Festival will feature the North American premiere of Marie Losier‘s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, a much-anticipated documentary that chronicles the love story of industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and his late wife Lady Jaye. Screening times have not been released yet, but the festival runs this year on March 11-19 at its regular home of Austin, Texas.
Genesis and Lady Jaye had a unique relationship in which, in addition to getting married, they attempted to meld together as a single pandrogynous entity known as Breyer P-Orridge. (The “Breyer” portion of the name coming from Jaye’s maiden name.) The couple both underwent plastic surgery and hormone therapy together, as well as starting to cross-dress and adopt perfectly identical mannerisms and behaviors.
Unfortunately, Jaye passed away in 2007, although Genesis continues to live his life as Breyer P-Orridge.
Production on the film began a few...
Genesis and Lady Jaye had a unique relationship in which, in addition to getting married, they attempted to meld together as a single pandrogynous entity known as Breyer P-Orridge. (The “Breyer” portion of the name coming from Jaye’s maiden name.) The couple both underwent plastic surgery and hormone therapy together, as well as starting to cross-dress and adopt perfectly identical mannerisms and behaviors.
Unfortunately, Jaye passed away in 2007, although Genesis continues to live his life as Breyer P-Orridge.
Production on the film began a few...
- 2/14/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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Canadian film distributors Kinosmith are offering the following DVD titles of note from their extensive film collection :
"The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins" follows Vanessa Beecroft’s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life.
"...Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?..."
In "Ghosts", a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother.
"...Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except...
Canadian film distributors Kinosmith are offering the following DVD titles of note from their extensive film collection :
"The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins" follows Vanessa Beecroft’s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life.
"...Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?..."
In "Ghosts", a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother.
"...Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except...
- 12/7/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Canadian-based film distributors Kinosmith, in association with DVD partner Project X Distribution have announced new DVD titles to their extensive film collection. The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins follows Vanessa Beecroft.s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life. "...Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?..." In Ghosts, a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother. "...Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except...
- 11/20/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
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