A way to die: the films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance
Maxime Lachaud & Reivaks Timeless
- 2023
- France
- Industrial anthology
- 1h05mn
- Sound
- Black and white with color
World premiere
Work in progress
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.
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Screenings
08/09 • 21h15 • Screen 300
In presence of the directors
10/09 • 17h00 • Screen 100
In presence of the directors
Credits
- With : Peter Christopherson, John Balance, Monte Cazazza
- Screenplay : Maxime Lachaud, Reivaks Timeless
- Photography : Peter Christopherson, John Balance
- Editing : Maxime Lachaud, Reivaks Timeless
- Music by : Peter Christopherson, John Balance
- Production : Timeless Editions
