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.

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Year: 2020
Type of film: Features
Running time: 90 min
Format: Digital
Director: Marcus Werner Hed, Dan Fox
Producer: Marcus Werner Hed

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Willow Glen Films

Sales Company

Burning Bridges

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