From performance art to deafening industrial music, COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle are two of the most influential institutions in the history of the avant-garde. Directed by Marcus Werner Hed and Dan Fox, Other, Like Me is the story of these innovators in their own words.

“The grey and depressing British industrial town Hull was a suitable place for a nihilistic avant-garde collective, which at the end of the 1970s aggressively confronted every conceivable taboo: sex, pornography, violence and self-mutilation. But COUM Transmissions was only the beginning. Led by the artists Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, COUM soon mutated into the visionary, transgressive and absolutely uncompromsing industrial/noise band Throbbing Gristle, who were famously named ‘the wreckers of civilisation’ by a shocked conservative politician. Throbbing Gristle reinvented music by destroying it, and has to this day set an untouchable standard of radical otherness. The many rare archival clips already speak for themselves, but Other, Like Me is an oral history narrated by the former members on screen for the first time.” – CPH:DOX

We’re pleased to partner with Winnipeg Film Group to present two showings of Other, Like Me at Winnipeg’s Cinematheque, beginning on Cosey Fanni Tutti’s 70th birthday! Tickets are available at the door or online.

Thursday, November 4th – 7:00pm 
Saturday, November 6th – 3:00pm