Peter Christopherson

Acting

Peter Christopherson

Born February 27, 1955 · Leeds, England, UK

Died November 24, 2010 · aged 55

No biography available.

Known For

Now VoyagerNow Voyager · 1985
Now Voyager
★ 7.01985
MovieFantasyMusic
A spoiled pop star crashes his car in an irrigation ditch and comes to in a public indoor pool supervised by a mysterious man who attempts to show him the error of his ways.
BlueBlue · 1993
Blue
★ 7.21993
MovieDocumentaryDrama
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
Throbbing Gristle: Live at Sheffield UniversityThrobbing Gristle: Live at Sheffield University · 1980
Throbbing Gristle: Live at Sheffield University
1980
Movie
Throbbing Gristle: Live at Sheffield University 10th of June 1980
Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards) · 1990
Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
★ 8.01990
MovieMusic
Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.
In the Shadow of the SunIn the Shadow of the Sun · 1981
In the Shadow of the Sun
★ 6.41981
MovieFantasyMusic
'The Shadow of the Sun' draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. Jarman once described film’s union of light and matter as “an alchemical conjunction” and experimented throughout his career with creating dream symbolism through the superimposition of image and action. Originally called English Apocalypse, the film’s final title is derived from a 17th Century alchemical text that used the phrase as a synonym for the philosopher’s stone – the highly sought substance that turns base metals into gold and silver. The film was intended as a step toward the idea of an ambient video, that like its musical counterpart, was designed to enhance an environment.
FriskFrisk · 1996
Frisk
★ 4.21996
MovieDramaThriller
A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal. His friends attempt to determine if he's truly a psychopath.
The Angelic ConversationThe Angelic Conversation · 1987
The Angelic Conversation
★ 5.21987
MovieDrama
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
The Beautiful and DamnedThe Beautiful and Damned · 2010
The Beautiful and Damned
2010
MovieDrama
Twenty something trust fund kid Anthony Patch and his party girl wife Gloria Gilbert are disinherited by their wealthy benefactor grandfather and their lives spiral out of control in a blizzard of drugs, sex and eventual violence. Based on the novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald.

Filmography

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In the Shadow of the SunIn the Shadow of the Sun · 1981
In the Shadow of the Sun
★ 6.41981
MovieFantasyMusic
'The Shadow of the Sun' draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. Jarman once described film’s union of light and matter as “an alchemical conjunction” and experimented throughout his career with creating dream symbolism through the superimposition of image and action. Originally called English Apocalypse, the film’s final title is derived from a 17th Century alchemical text that used the phrase as a synonym for the philosopher’s stone – the highly sought substance that turns base metals into gold and silver. The film was intended as a step toward the idea of an ambient video, that like its musical counterpart, was designed to enhance an environment.

Music

A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John BalanceA Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance · 2023
A Way to Die: The Films of Peter Christopherson and John Balance
★ 5.12023
MovieDocumentary
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.

Director of Photography

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir: Form Grows RampantThe Threshold HouseBoys Choir: Form Grows Rampant · 2007
The Threshold HouseBoys Choir: Form Grows Rampant
2007
MovieMusicDocumentary
The Threshold Houseboys Choir was a project by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson. Operating out of Bangkok, Thailand, the Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founding member started this audio and visual endeavour after Coil's conclusion. Despite the name, it was a solo project relying heavily on computer generated vocals. The name was derived from a play on words, combining the terms houseboy, house of boys, boys' choir, and Threshold House, which was Coil's own label. "Form Grows Rampant" is the soundtrack of a film shot by Christopherson (a video capture at the GinJae Vegetarian Festival in the south of Thailand) and his first major musical project since the tragic death of John Balance and Coil's subsequent demise.

Director