Other, Like Me _ The COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Story

Synopsis

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 theatre under the name COUM Transmissions. Surviving on meagre resources at the margins of society, COUM’s playful performances gradually gave way to work that dealt openly with sex, pornography, and violence. At the core of the group were two artists, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti: Cosey forged a unique position in relation to 1970s feminism by modelling for pornographic magazines as an exercise in conceptual artwork, while Genesis pushed himself to other extremes, testing the limits of the human body.

Details

Year

2020

Type of film

Features

Running Time

90 min

Format

Digital

Director

Marcus Werner Hed, Dan Fox

Producer

Marcus Werner Hed

Genre

• Documentary

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 21st September 2021