Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Born: November 4, 1951
in Kingston Upon Hull, UK
Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Carol Newby, 4 November 1951) is an English performance artist, musician and writer, best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.

Movies for Cosey Fanni Tutti...

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes
Title: Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2020
Type: Movie
A true pioneer in audio exploration and psycho-acoustics, Delia Derbyshire conceived one of the most familiar compositions in science fiction, the Doctor Who theme, while working in a BBC basement. Her soundscapes felt like they connected to another realm. Kicking off with the discovery of 267 tapes in an attic, along with a treasure trove of journals hidden in her childhood bedroom, this film tunes in to Derbyshire’s frequency; that of a life-long non-conformist, whose peals of laughter in an archive interview tickle with delight and eccentricity. Featuring a rich archive, interviews, fictional embodiment and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s psycho-sonic channelling, director Caroline Catz traces acoustic pathways on her archeological dig into Derbyshire’s resonant life.
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Other, Like Me
Title: Other, Like Me
Released: March 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Hull, England, 1970. In a run-down commune in a tough port city, a group of social misfits - mostly working class, mostly self-educated - adopted new identities and began making simple street theater under the name COUM Transmissions. Their playful performances gradually gave way to work that dealt openly with sex, pornography, and violence. COUM lived on the edges of society, surviving on meager resources, finding fellowship with others marginalized by the mainstream. At the core of the group were two artists, Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti. As their work evolved, Cosey embarked on a career modeling for pornographic magazines, which she claimed for herself as a conceptual artwork, using it to forge a specific position in relationship to 1970s feminism. In performances, Genesis pushed himself to extremes, testing the limits of the human body.
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Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
Title: Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
Character: Herself
Released: August 16, 2018
Type: Movie
The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.
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Welcome to Hull!: City of Culture
Title: Welcome to Hull!: City of Culture
Character: Herself
Released: February 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Hull is the UK's City of Culture for 2017. In this BBC Arts documentary, the wonderful Hull-born comedian Lucy Beaumont, writer and star of the Radio 4 sitcom To Hull and Back, looks at the cultural treats that will be taking place in her home town - and whether being City of Culture will transform Hull forever. Lucy talks to key figures in this historic year for her home city, including the writer Richard Bean and actress Maureen Lipman, as well as discovering the rich cultural life that already exists in Hull. She will also explore the more avant-garde side of Hull with the performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti, who invented industrial music with the band Throbbing Gristle.
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Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay
Title: Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay
Released: May 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay traces the origins of Industrial music, taking you on a journey through the crumbling industrial cities of Europe to America's thriving avant-garde scene. Featuring Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, SPK, Test Dept, Clock DVA, Re/Search - V Vale, Z'EV, Click Click, Sordide Sentimental, Hula, The Klinik, Ant Zen, Orphx, In The Nursery and Prima Linea.
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A Study In Scarlet
Title: A Study In Scarlet
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original 'diorama' building in London. Followed by a celebration of the body and mind. The admission of sexual awakening and freedom. A tribute to the works of Georges Bataille. Filmed at The Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK.
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Pussy Got the Cream
Title: Pussy Got the Cream
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A film by Cosey Fanni Tutti, originally commissioned for the Taboo Festival of Eroticism on the 6th March 1986. Statement: Expression of oneself and of the hidden voice so seldom heard or heeded is an action of unequal power. Releasing and acknowledging all that you are to yourself allows growth of spirit. Creativity on every level begins with ourselves. Suppression brings us only screaming souls locked within empty lives. I wish for every voice to be heard, even as a whisper... Cosey Fanni Tutti 1986
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Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
Title: Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.
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Shadows from Light
Title: Shadows from Light
Released: August 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Born in 1904, Brandt was a shy and enigmatic man who dominated British photography for decades. His early studies of class-divided Britain were followed by the postwar series of "distorted nudes", shot on beaches and inside rooms. The film is a fitting final portrait of Brandt (it was completed in the year he died), and recomposes his work in cinematic terms. The camera moves through an apartment where the pictures were taken, to reveal photographs scattered 'in situ'. These are panned to show the surrounding space, the angle of vision and a model who reconstructs Brandt's original image. Dwoskin emphasises visual atmosphere through the language of the eye.
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Throbbing Gristle: Mission of Dead Souls - The Last Live Performance of TG
Title: Throbbing Gristle: Mission of Dead Souls - The Last Live Performance of TG
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Throbbing Gristle performing live at the Kezar Pavillion in San Francisco, California on the evening of May 29th, 1981. This would be TG's last show until reforming in 2002.
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European Rendezvous
Title: European Rendezvous
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A video of live performances by Chris & Cosy with visuals by John Lacey. Recorded during the CTI European tour of 1983. (throbbing-gristle.com)
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Throbbing Gristle - Live At Kezar
Title: Throbbing Gristle - Live At Kezar
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Recorded live at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on the evening of May 29th, 1981. "Throbbing Gristle have ceased to exist. They are now pursuing solo projects."
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Elemental 7
Title: Elemental 7
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
This video accompanies an album of the same name.
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Psychic TV: First Transmission
Title: Psychic TV: First Transmission
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First advertised in the back pages of Thee Grey Book , The First Transmission was an ultra weird touchstone of the underground VHS tape trading scene of the 1980s.
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T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven
Title: T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: Movie
An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.
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SXXX-80
Title: SXXX-80
Released: December 31, 1980
Type: Movie
A 10 minute Super 8 collaboration with Tana Emmolo Smith, SXXX-80 (1980), a film which gleefully depicts what many would consider polymorphic sexual dysfunction as home movie, and was produced as a result of equal parts ennui and mischief on Cazazza's part.
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Throbbing Gristle: The Recording of the Heathen Earth Album
Title: Throbbing Gristle: The Recording of the Heathen Earth Album
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The live in-studio recording of Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth, in February of 1980, in front of an invited audience at the studios of Industrial Records Ltd.
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Throbbing Gristle: Live at Oundle School, 16th March 1980
Title: Throbbing Gristle: Live at Oundle School, 16th March 1980
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
"This video cassette contains a recording of a live performance by TG at Oundle School. The audience, apart one or two members of the staff, was composed completely of school boys between about 8 and 18. In addition to the single camera recording of the gig, certain visual information from the files of Industrial Records Ltd. has been included. Like the TG sound itself, the content and quality of this recording cannot and should not be compared with conventional commercial recordings."
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Phoelix
Title: Phoelix
Character: Stripper
Released: August 1, 1979
Type: Movie
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.
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The Silent Cry
Title: The Silent Cry
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1977
Type: Movie
'The Silent Cry is a fictionalised narrative film, based on documentary facts and extracts of one English girl's memories and thoughts, all surrounded, and directed towards her particular dilemma. This dilemma can be summarized as her basic inability to have relationships, especially sustained relationships, and particularly with men. This is the total of her statement and the film. The construction and flow of the film follows the way she thinks - it is her point of view that is followed in the film. So all things are the way she remembers and dwells on them, and which are important to her.' - S.D.
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Secrets of a Superstud
Title: Secrets of a Superstud
Character: Gas Girl
Released: July 19, 1976
Type: Movie
In this silly soft-core sex comedy, Tony Kenyon is Custer Firkeshaw, the owner of a girlie magazine. He stands to inherit a fortune… If he can get married and have a baby within a year. When he (and his relatives) find out from his doctor that he only has 13 more…uh, attempts-at-procreating left in him, the relatives set out to ensure that he uses them all up, so that they can inherit the property.
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Sexangle
Title: Sexangle
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie