THE BALLAD OF GENESIS & LADY JAYE

75 min | NR
An 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, this Berlin Film Festival Best Documentary winner centers around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project. Meeting and falling deeply in love in 1993, the couple decided undergo cosmetic surgery to take their love and performance art to the next level by shedding individual identities and creating a new entity that represents them both together.