
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceLosier's doc is almost as obsessive as its subjects. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMost important, the relationship between P-Orridge and Lady Jaye comes off as heartfelt, and "Ballad" makes you feel something. Just like art. |
| Movie DearestFr. Chris CarpenterDirector Marie Losier's film is informative but it is also more often than not irritating in both content and technique. (A film) more to be endured than enjoyed. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallThis edgy documentary manages to tell an affecting love story even as it ventures into the cultish, transgressive world of underground music. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichLosier has made a quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovTrue love is never having to say goodbye … because when you look in the mirror, there s/he is. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Guy DixonIt's rare for a documentary style to match its subject so ideally. |
| The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonGenesis And Lady Jaye accurately portrays a restless artist with a kitchen-sink aesthetic, and offers up a film to match. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertHow often do we tell our lovers that we feel at one with them, that we want to emulate their best qualities? Here we see an amazing couple who take that ego-obliterating infatuation to its logical conclusion. |
| Village VoiceKarina LongworthThis 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. |