Genesis P-Orridge
Also Known As: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Neil Megson
Biography: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson, 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism, and P-Orridge's own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. Later musical work with Psychic TV received wider exposure, including some chart-topping singles. P-Orridge is credited on over 200 releases. P-Orridge has two daughters, Caresse and Genesse, with former wife Paula P-Orridge (born Alaura O'Dell). After marrying Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge in 1993, they began a project to become Breyer P-Orridge, a single pandrogynous entity. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge continued this project after the death of Lady Jaye in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Victoria Park, Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: February 22, 1950
Deathday: March 14, 2020
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Gender: Other
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Dig!
Overview: A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-14
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Psychic TV: Black Joy
Overview: Psychedelic industrial rocker Genesis P-Orridge brings the visual and musical wonders of his longtime outfit Psychic TV to DVD with this release from Music Video Distributors. Presented in 1.33:1 full-frame, the image quality on both Black and Joy is as good as can be expected, with slight, occasional pixilation more likely due to the source materials that the actual video transfer. Dolby Digital Stereo audio is strong throughout. In addition to Black and Joy, fans of Joy Division will be happy to note the inclusion of the IC Water promo featuring footage of the late Ian Curtis inter-cut with Orridge walking the beach as flowers bloom in time-lapse and dolphins leap from the ocean.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-03
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FLicKeR
Overview: In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize human consciousness. It looks simple enough; a 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come. The Dream Machine enthralled mystics and freethinkers everywhere; Kurt Cobain had a dream machine, and William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to “storm the citadels of enlightenment.” With a custom-made Dream Machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin; his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the most eccentric counter-cultural icons. Taking the Dream Machine as the basis of its explorations, FLicKeR asks crucial questions about the nature of art and consciousness, and imagines a humanity liberated to explore its creativity in complete freedom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-14
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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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Decoder
Overview: F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-19
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Modulations
Overview: Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every major player past and present, as well as a few energetic live clips, Modulations delves into one of electronica's forgotten facets: the human element. Lee travels the globe from the American Midwest to Europe to Japan to try to express the appeal of music often dismissed as soulless. Modulations shows that behind even the most foreign or alien electronic composition lies a real human being, and Lee lets many of these Frankenstein-like creators express and expound upon their personal philosophies and tech-heavy theories. Lee understands that a cultural movement as massive and diverse as dance music can't be contained.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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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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Glitterbug
Overview: A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
Genres: Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-05
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Wild Thing
Overview: A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-26
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Write Your Own Code
Overview: As Genesis and I were working on the documentary film "Change Itself” (released in 2016), we agreed that it would be great to also have Genesis reading poetry in the film. One clip was eventually used. "Write Your Own Code" contains all of the material we shot in Oslo, Norway, 2014. These sessions also became the creative ignition for the spoken word album we made together in 2017, and which was released in 2019 by Ideal Recordings: "Loyalty Does Not End With Death." I have left the casual tone of the sessions, including some mishaps, as untouched as possible. Write Your Own Code! – Carl Abrahamsson, 2021
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-02
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Poems Are Living Things
Overview: A film about the making of the album "Loyalty Does Not End With Death" by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Carl Abrahamsson.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-23
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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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A Message from the Temple
Overview: currently in post-production. The story of an international "anti-cult" whose radical search for personal liberation incurred the wrath of the British establishment, resulting in a dramatic modern day witch hunt.
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Original Language: en
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IRL
Overview: An alienated girl struggles to piece together the events of the previous night over 24 hours in NYC, only to be reminded that nothing is ever as it seems in a city where everyone is a self-made avatar, and violence looms like a halo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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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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S/He Is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary
Overview: An introduction, conversation and perhaps goodbye to Genesis P-Orridge, who left an astounding and provocative legacy on the worlds of music, art, performance, religion and the occult. A larger-than-life personality that must be experienced to be grasped, Genesis opens up portals to a way of living that transforms and transcends.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-13
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Joy Division
Overview: A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-28
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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 Pandrogeny Manifesto
Overview: Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P’Orridge talk about their pandrogeny manifesto, about gender, and about how they seek to become identical to one another via medical experimention.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-12
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Catalan
Overview: A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.
Genres: Music Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Overview: To sum up the life and work of British artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is close to impossible. Not only because of the wide range of artistic disciplines, but also because of the timespan, since the mid 1960s to the present day, that has been saturated by hundreds of records, thousands of concerts, exhibitions, interviews, videos, spoken word performances, collages, sculptures, philosophy, cultural engineering, occultism and radical transgender concepts. A couple of descriptions are still valid after these 50 years of active creativity and provocation. P-Orridge is a romantic existentialist and a cultural engineer. Everything is both work as such and seed for cultural and behavioural change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-16
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Sex, Blood and Mutilation
Overview: Joe Christ's video freakshow of professional scarification, genital mutilation, and all-around physical debasement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Dead Cat
Overview: A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Live in Berlin
Overview: Psychic TV performs live at the Berlin Atonal Festival, December 2nd, 1983.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay
Overview: Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay traces the origins of Industrial music, taking you on a journey through the crumbling industrial cities of Europe to America's thriving avant-garde scene. Featuring Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, SPK, Test Dept, Clock DVA, Re/Search - V Vale, Z'EV, Click Click, Sordide Sentimental, Hula, The Klinik, Ant Zen, Orphx, In The Nursery and Prima Linea.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-08
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Weird Woman (State I and State II)
Overview: Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one was done we don’t remember. It was completely made up on the spot. We were doing something else and then Jay just said, ‘Why don’t you do one of those weird women?’ ‘Okay.’ And made the story up out of nowhere.
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Original Language: en
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Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising
Overview: Documentary about the influence of Lou Reed's experimental fifth album 'Metal Machine Music', released in 1975 and widely considered to mark the beginning of industrial rock music, of which the band Nine Inch Nails have been leading proponents.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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Bight of the Twin
Overview: A documentary film that will take viewers to Ouidah, Benin, the geographic heart of the Vodoun religion, where friends and collaborators, director Hazel Hill McCarthy, III and cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, explore the relationship between Vodoun and Western secular art and performance by trying to answer the question of what embodiment is.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-11
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Sympathy For The Devil: The True Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Overview: Google 'The Process Church of the Final Judgement' and you'll discover a long list of conspiracy theories. Only now, former members reveal the truth about the misunderstood group once dubbed 'One of the most dangerous Satanic cults in America.'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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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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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Overview: A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Mr. Alien Brain Vs. The Skinwalkers
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-01
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Sex, Blood, And Mutilation 2
Overview: A sequel to Joe Christ's video freakshow
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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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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