The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Name: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Genre: Biography, Romance, Music, Documentary
Released: March 9, 2012
Duration: 65 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge

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Adopt Films | Release Date: March 9, 2012 | Not Rated

Starring: Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge

Summary: In 2000, one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years, Genesis P-Orridge, began a series of sex reassignment surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer), who remained his wife and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act ofIn 2000, one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years, Genesis P-Orridge, began a series of sex reassignment surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer), who remained his wife and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act of devotion, and Genesis’s most risky, ambitious, and subversive performance to date: he became a she in a triumphant act of artistic self-expression. Genesis called this project “Creating the Pandrogyne”, an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third. This is a love story, and a portrait of two lives that illustrate the transformative powers of both love and art. (Adopt Films)… Expand

Director: Marie Losier

Genre(s): Biography, Romance, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 65 min

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David Lewis

Mar 8, 2012

Most important, the relationship between P-Orridge and Lady Jaye comes off as heartfelt, and "Ballad" makes you feel something. Just like art. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Mar 6, 2012

Losier has made a quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Apr 4, 2012

True love is never having to say goodbye … because when you look in the mirror, there s/he is. Read full review

Karina Longworth

Mar 6, 2012

This 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. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Apr 13, 2012

Though the film flirts with being in a sense too intimately drawn from Jaye and P-Orridge themselves - more context from those who knew P-Orridge before the couple got together would have been useful - the sense of intimacy created by Losier is remarkable. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Mar 8, 2012

Highlighting the wacky while playing down the distasteful, Marie Losier's playful profile of the English musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his second wife, Lady Jaye, takes a lighthearted look at the things they did for love. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Mar 23, 2012

If it's art, it's only mildly interesting. Read full review

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Trailesque

Jan 17, 2023

Here is a portrait of a couple of very unusual lovers and their relationship. We follow their life together in New York City and on tour with Psychic TV, one of P-Orridge's bands. Despite the fact that these two are as freaky as can be, their union is a sweet and romantic one. They soughtHere is a portrait of a couple of very unusual lovers and their relationship. We follow their life together in New York City and on tour with Psychic TV, one of P-Orridge's bands. Despite the fact that these two are as freaky as can be, their union is a sweet and romantic one. They sought to eliminate their gender differences, and through plastic surgery and art, become one being, a pandrogyne. Still, it only presents part of their story, and it is all from P-Orridge's POV. What, for example, is the story with Genesis's kids, beyond them wishing he would buy them a car instead of new boobs for himself and his lover? And where did Lady Jaye come from, and how did she end up on her own at age 14? This does make me want to check out some of his music, even if his monotonous vocals are hardly attractive.… Expand

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