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Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Artist (un)present – Maciej Sado (PL/DE), Isadora Tomasi (IT/DE) DJ Scotch Egg feat. Ethnique Punch & Mo’ong (JP/TUR/DE) // Nyege Nyege Tapes showcase Musical interpretation of graphic scores – workshops for children and schoolchildren New paths for graphic interpretation – workshops for musicians Artist residency: Maciej Sado (PL/DE), Isadora Tomasi (IT/DE) SUMISH & shemovesshe live 1+1+1+1 (INT) A Symphony of Noise – Matthew Herbert’s Revolution Alpha Maid (GB) Anatol (PL) / enjoy life showcase ANDY THE DOORBUM (US) Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra (GB/US) Coby Sey (GB) Cooper / Guthrie / Majkowski (GB/AU/PL) Dafnie (NOR) Deli Girls (US) DJ DISCOMFORT (PL) DJ Scotch Egg feat. Ethnique Punch (JP/TUR/DE) // Nyege Nyege Tapes showcase dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS (POR) Ecko Bazz feat. STILL // Nyege Nyege Tapes showcase ECKO ELVIN (GB/UG) // Nyege Nyege Tapes showcase ESTHER SPLETT (CA) Freddie Murphy presents: The Night shows no Dawn (IT) Gorycz (PL) Grid (US) Gugas (PL) Harrga (POR/GB) I Get Knocked Down IAM + HIDROS 9 (INT) IFRIQIYYA ELECTRIQUE (FR/TUN) Ill Considered (GB) Jerry & The Pelican System (PL) Julek Płoski (PL) Kakofonium (PL) / enjoy life showcase Kollaps (IT/AU) Krenz (PL) Kuzniak & Mahmoud (PL/DE) Lounge Ryszards (PL) Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over michaluk x radzikows (PL) Microcorps (GB) Mike Majkowski (PL/AU) MLODY KOTEK I NIEMY DOTYK (PL) / enjoy life showcase Mordor Muzik (PL) Open Call Ostrowski (PL) Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Phatrax (PL) PL3XUS (CA/DE) PSIE KŁAKI [DOG SHREDS] (PL) Rozwód (PL) Samuel Kerridge (GB) szorstkie (PL) TBA TONFA (PL) Zeten (PL) ZS (US)
Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Warsaw 29.09.2022 18:00 Kino Iluzjon
Wrocław 25.09.2022 16:00 Kino Nowe Horyzonty
Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

dir. by Marcus Werner Hed, Dan Fox
time: 80′
production: Great Britain, USA 2020
language: English

Hull, England, 1970. In a shabby commune in a tough port city, a group of social misfits – mostly working class, mostly self-taught – adopted a new identity and began creating simple street theater under the name COUM Transmissions. The core of the group consisted of two female artists: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Cosey developed a unique position in relation to 1970s feminism, modeling for pornographic magazines as an exercise in conceptual art, while Genesis went to extremes, testing the limits of the human body.
In the mid-1970s, the police chased them out of Hull, and the British press and politicians called them “destroyers of civilization.” At the height of their fame in the art world, COUM turned to music, starting a new phase as the confrontational and notorious band Throbbing Gristle. They built their own instruments, ran an independent record label and confronted the dark side of human nature with brutal honesty, inventing a whole new genre of electronic music – ‘Industrial’. The band became a major inspiration for generations of musicians, before imploding on stage in front of thousands of fans in San Francisco in 1981, not to reform for another 23 years.
Other, Like Me is the first documentary to be made about COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, drawing from the group’s extensive photo and video archives and featuring new interviews with original members, including Genesis and Cosey. Their story is a tale of creativity and survival against the odds, and the complete merging of art and life, no matter the cost.

Other, Like Me: The Oral History of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle — Avant Art Festival 2022
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