Peter Christopherson
Also Known As: Sleazy, Peter Martin Christopherson, Coil
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leeds, England, UK
Birthday: February 27, 1955
Deathday: November 24, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Coil, the death of Jhon Balance
Overview: Documentary featuring Peter Christopherson discussing his histories with Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil - the much missed groundbreaking band he would form with his lover Jhon Balance and develop over decades. Coil came to its end with the tragic and futile November 2004 death of Balance, a death that Peter and many others had feared was coming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-25
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Psychic TV: First Transmission
Overview: For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First advertised in the back pages of Thee Grey Book , The First Transmission was an ultra weird touchstone of the underground VHS tape trading scene of the 1980s.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance
Overview: Founders of Coil, a cult entity of experimental industrial British music, Peter Christopherson and John Balance also directed films from 1970 to 1980, exhumed and restored by Timeless. Shot on 8 and 16mm film, these unclassifiable subversive marvels, unsettling and trippy, garbed in gay masochist aesthetics, are as much family films, performances, body horror and urban nightmares. They're above all characterized by a tormented imagination under the sign of Eros and Thanatos with an irrepressible taste for death. There was an empty space next to Antony Balch, Derek Jarman and Jean Genet : it's no longer vacant. Maxime Lachaud and Reivaks Timeless deliver a unique document, haunted by the duo’s music, with this one way journey into limbo, where they’re joined by the recently deceased Monte Cazazza, a founding father of the concept of industrial music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-08
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The Beautiful and Damned
Overview: Twenty something trust fund kid Anthony Patch and his party girl wife Gloria Gilbert are disinherited by their wealthy benefactor grandfather and their lives spiral out of control in a blizzard of drugs, sex and eventual violence. Based on the novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven
Overview: An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-31
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Throbbing Gristle - Live At Kezar
Overview: Recorded live at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on the evening of May 29th, 1981. "Throbbing Gristle have ceased to exist. They are now pursuing solo projects."
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Throbbing Gristle: The Recording of the Heathen Earth Album
Overview: The live in-studio recording of Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth, in February of 1980, in front of an invited audience at the studios of Industrial Records Ltd.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Throbbing Gristle: Mission of Dead Souls - The Last Live Performance of TG
Overview: Throbbing Gristle performing live at the Kezar Pavillion in San Francisco, California on the evening of May 29th, 1981. This would be TG's last show until reforming in 2002.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Pirate Tape
Overview: Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the legendary Final Academy events at the South London Ritzy Cinema. These were Burroughs-themed art and performance nights curated by Psychic TV. Jarman’s film shows Burroughs on Tottenham Court Road signing autographs with fans and inside a shop buying alcohol. The industrial soundtrack by Psychic TV features a sample of Burroughs repeating "boys, school showers and swimming pools full of 'em'". Additional footage shot by Jarman during Burroughs' visit is reported to have been confiscated by Scotland Yard in 1991 and remains lost. Jarman and Psychic TV would continue to collaborate (“magic bound us together” Jarman wrote), with Jarman directing the music video for Catalan and staring as the spokesperson in the Psychic TV video A Spokesman for the Temple of Psychick Youth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Throbbing Gristle: Live at Oundle School, 16th March 1980
Overview: "This video cassette contains a recording of a live performance by TG at Oundle School. The audience, apart one or two members of the staff, was composed completely of school boys between about 8 and 18. In addition to the single camera recording of the gig, certain visual information from the files of Industrial Records Ltd. has been included. Like the TG sound itself, the content and quality of this recording cannot and should not be compared with conventional commercial recordings."
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Sound of Progress
Overview: This documentary shows the mindset of the some of the most original and influential artists of the experimental scene (Coil, Current 93, Foetus, Test Dept.). An unprecedented insight into the workings, the methods and the ideas that made these names legendary. Filmed in Hamburg, Amsterdam and London, 1985-1987.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Other, Like Me
Overview: Hull, England, 1970. In a run-down commune in a tough port city, a group of social misfits - mostly working class, mostly self-educated - adopted new identities and began making simple street theater under the name COUM Transmissions. Their playful performances gradually gave way to work that dealt openly with sex, pornography, and violence. COUM lived on the edges of society, surviving on meager resources, finding fellowship with others marginalized by the mainstream. At the core of the group were two artists, Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti. As their work evolved, Cosey embarked on a career modeling for pornographic magazines, which she claimed for herself as a conceptual artwork, using it to forge a specific position in relationship to 1970s feminism. In performances, Genesis pushed himself to extremes, testing the limits of the human body.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-23
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Coil: Dublin 2004
Overview: Coil's very final live appearance at the 2004 Dublin Electronic Arts Festival held in the Dublin City Hall.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-23
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Coil: Colour Sound Oblivion
Overview: 16 DVD boxset by Threshold House, containing video registrations of the following Coil performances: Air Gallery, London, 24-08-1983 SONAR, Barcelona, 17-06-2000 Convergence, New York, 18-08-2001 DK Gorbunova, Moscow, 15-09-2001 Teatro Delle Celebraziani, Bologna, 06-04-2002 New Forms, Den Haag, 07-06-2002 Vagonka, Konigsberg, 29-09-2002 Ydrogeios, Thessaloniki, 05-10-2002 Flex, Vienna (+ Prague), 29-10-2002 La Loco, Paris, 23-05-2004 Mutek, Montreal, 29-05-2003 Melkweg, Amsterdam, 03-06-2004 (Selvagina), Jesi, 11-06-2004 City Hall, Dublin, 23-10-2004 The Coil Reconstruction Kit (2 discs)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Coil: Paris 2004
Overview: Live in Paris
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-23
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Coil: Prague 2002
Overview: Coil Live Prague 2002
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Coil: Live in Moscow 2001
Overview: A professionally filmed and edited video of Coil's performance at DK Gorbunova in Moscow, Russia on September 15, 2001. This release was given to attendees at Coil's return to Moscow on September 26, 2002, and was also made available for sale. Setlist Something/Higher Beings Command Amethyst Deceivers 6:10 What Kind Of Animal Are You? 8:30 Blood From The Air 6:20 The Green Child 7:30 Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil 15:30
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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TGV - The Video Archive of Throbbing Gristle
Overview: TGV is a limited edition 7 DVD set of archival footage of the English industrial band Throbbing Gristle. Included in this set were some of Throbbing Gristle's live performances, as well as rehearsals and short films. The release was limited to 2000 copies and was initially only available direct from the band's website.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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