Quirky love throbs in The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
By Gregory Adams, September 29, 2011
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NEW YORK—The origins of Marie Losier's music-documentary-cum-love story, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, lay not in the filmmaker's love for her subjects' tunes but in scuffed footwear. The French-born director admits that she was barely aware of transgendered rock icon Genesis P-Orridge's influential work with industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle or her subsequent work with wife Lady Jaye in Psychic TV, but shortly after seeing the pair perform poetry at an Alan Vega gig seven years ago, she stumbled headfirst into the couple's lives.
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From there, Losier developed a personal relationship with the pair. One day, while at their New York home, Lady Jaye, born Jacqueline Mary Breyer, asked Losier if she'd be interested in shooting a film (which screens during VIFF on September 29 and October 6 and 7) about the couple. After agreeing, the director immediately headed out on tour with Psychic TV. While initially thinking her footage would be used for a music doc, the closer she became with P-Orridge and Lady Jaye, the more she realized there was more to their story than some rock tunes—namely the couple's interest in pandrogyny.