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Genesis P-Orridge is talking about the day he was asked to rescue a series of radical movies made by
William [S.] Burroughs, artist
Brion Gysin and filmmaker
Antony Balch from a skip. It was 1980 and P-Orridge was living on the dole in Hackney, east London, fronting art-punk band Throbbing Gristle. 'Brion called me from Paris,' recalls P-Orridge. 'Antony had died, and all the films they had made in the 1950s and 1960s were about to be destroyed. 'Here's the address,' he said. 'Do what you can to save them. Go and get them, and they're yours.
You'll know what to do with them.' "
No, this isn't the sequel to
The Da Vinci Code.
According to
The Guardian, the episode really did take place, and Genesis P-Orridge rescued the
films on which Burroughs, Gysin and Balch collaborated -- including
Towers Open Fire and
The Cut Ups -- from imminent destruction.
# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 8/27/2004 10:31:00 AM
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