Doc N Roll Film Festival Presents

After paying tribute to and introducing the photographic and pictorial work of Peter Christopherson (1955-2010) and John Balance (1962-2004) to a larger audience, founding members of the cult formation COIL, Timeless editions have had the duo’s filmed archives restored, from their early films in adolescence in the early 1970s to the more accomplished works of the 1980s/90s, uncovering a first-rate cinematic body of work.

Alternating between medical art, homoerotic performances, and body horror, these short films and other moments immortalized on 8mm and 16mm film are firmly rooted within an aesthetic sense that resonates with the concerns of the emerging industrial scene in England. At the intersections of Eros and Thanatos, these images assembled by Maxime Lachaud and Reivaks Timeless into a raw, hallucinatory, and immersive film evoke the spectres of Georges Bataille, J.G. Ballard, Jean Genet, Derek Jarman as well as the Viennese Actionists. Underpinned by a number of previously unpublished compositions by the duo, A Way to Die is a unique document, sensual, disturbing, and profoundly haunted.