(Other, Like Me)

Content: 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 theater under the name COUM Transmissions. Their playful performances gradually gave way to work that dealt openly with sex, pornography, and violence. COUM lived on the edges of society, surviving on meager resources, finding fellowship with others marginalized by the mainstream. At the core of the group were two artists, Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti. As their work evolved, Cosey embarked on a career modeling for pornographic magazines, which she claimed for herself as a conceptual artwork, using it to forge a specific position in relationship to 1970s feminism. In performances, Genesis pushed himself to extremes, testing the limits of the human body.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

80 minutes

Year:

2020

Directors:

Dan Fox

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Production companies:

BBC,

Virtual Post,

Willow Glen Films

Actors:

Self

Self

Self (as Christine Newby)

Self

Self

Crews:

Director

Director

Sound Mixer

Producer

Editor