Special Screening
& Meet the Director Marie Losier presents The Ballad of Genesis
and Lady Jaye Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7pm
Post-Screening Q&A with director Marie Losier
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall Free for FIAF Members & Students
The Ballad of Genesis
and Lady Jaye
Marie Losier, 2011. Color. 74 min.
With Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge,
Big Boy (Breyer P-Orrdige)
Film in English
"Losier’s film captures the poignant paradoxes, the ecstasies
and burdens, of the transformation of life into art."—The New Yorker, Richard Brody
Celebrated filmmaker and FIAF Film Curator Marie Losier’s mesmerizing portrait chronicles the life and work of pioneering musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her uncommon, indelible, and unforgettable love affair with Lady Jaye.
Seven years in the making, it explores Genesis’s musical trajectory, starting with Throbbing Gristle in the 70s to the still very active cult favorites Psychic TV, and how his chance encounter with a dominatrix in New York called Lady Jaye brought about a singular and enduring artistic collaboration and a brazen partnership that defied all perceptions of love.
A prize winner at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, the film enjoyed its triumphant American premieres at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and SXSW.
Join us for a special screening of this captivating love story followed by a Q&A with director Marie Losier.
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FIAF are made possible
by the New York State
Council on the Arts with
the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and
the New York State
Legislature
FIAF Winter 2012
Season Sponsors: American Airlines,
the official airline of FIAF;
the Cultural Services
of the French Embassy;
Institut français;
the Florence Gould
Foundation; National
Endowment for the Arts;
New York State Council
on the Arts; the New
York City Department
of Cultural Affairs;
Robert de Rothschild
