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Cast

Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

John Balance

John Balance

Monte Cazazza

Monte Cazazza

Marc Almond

Marc Almond

Self

Gavin Friday

Gavin Friday

Jean Claude Wouters

Jean Claude Wouters

Antal Nemeth

Antal Nemeth

Alan Oversby

Alan Oversby

Jill Westwood

Jill Westwood

Crew

Maxime Lachaud

Maxime Lachaud

Director

Reivaks Timeless

Reivaks Timeless

Director

Maxime Lachaud

Maxime Lachaud

Writer

Reivaks Timeless

Reivaks Timeless

Writer

Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Director of Photography

John Balance

John Balance

Director of Photography

Maxime Lachaud

Maxime Lachaud

Editor

Reivaks Timeless

Reivaks Timeless

Editor

Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Music

John Balance

John Balance

Music

Reivaks Timeless

Reivaks Timeless

Producer

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A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance

20235.1 / 1066 min
Documentary

Overview

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.