Synopsis
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 wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'Pandrogyne' project.
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Cast
- Genesis P-OrridgeHimself / Herself
- Lady Jaye Breyer P-OrridgeHerself
- Bryin Dall
- William S. Burroughs
- Tony Conrad
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Most important, the relationship between P-Orridge and Lady Jaye comes off as heartfelt, and "Ballad" makes you feel something. Just like art. - 80
Time Out
Losier has made a quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve. - 78
Austin Chronicle
True love is never having to say goodbye … because when you look in the mirror, there s/he is. - 75
The A.V. Club
Genesis And Lady Jaye accurately portrays a restless artist with a kitchen-sink aesthetic, and offers up a film to match. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's rare for a documentary style to match its subject so ideally. - 70
Village Voice
This impressionistic approach eschews traditional biography, instead giving the viewer the feeling of being inside a moment, without necessarily providing all the information we might need to contextualize what we're seeing. - 70
The New York Times
Highlighting the wacky while playing down the distasteful, Marie Losier's playful profile of the English musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his second wife, Lady Jaye, takes a lighthearted look at the things they did for love. - 63
Boston Globe
The movie doesn't exactly argue anything. It's mostly a collection of scenes and footage, directed by Losier in plumes of abstraction and unified by Megson's voice-over.
