Peter Christopherson

Acting

Peter Christopherson

Born February 27, 1955 · Leeds, England, UK

Died November 24, 2010 · aged 55

No biography available.

Known For

BrokenBroken · 1993
Broken
1993
MovieHorrorCrime
Trent Reznor presents his dark vision of the EP 'Broken' by telling the story of a man kidnapped and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos.
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.
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.
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.
The The: Infected - The MovieThe The: Infected - The Movie · 1987
The The: Infected - The Movie
1987
MovieMusic
Matt Johnson's full-length VHS video album made to accompany the 1987 release of "Infected".
The Beautiful and DamnedThe Beautiful and Damned · 2010
The Beautiful and Damned
2010
Movie
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.
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and SadomasochismBloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism · 1995
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism
5.21995
MovieDocumentary
From pushy bottoms to macho femmes, Bloodsisters is an A–Z documentary guide that takes an in-depth look at the San Francisco Leatherdyke scene during the mid-nineties.
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.”

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.

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