Marie Losier

Marie Losier (born in France) is a French filmmaker and curator who’s worked in New York City for 20 years. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. She studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France) and Fine Arts at Hunter College in New York City. She has made a number of film portraits on avant- garde directors, musicians and composers, such as George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge and Alan Vega. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.

Losier’s films are regularly shown at prestigious art and film festivals and museums, such as the Berlinale, Rotterdam Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival, Tate Modern, MOMA, Palais de Tokyo, Centre George Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, N.Y.C).^[1]

Her first feature film was the portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his/her partner Lady Jaye. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011, and won the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. She also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliotheques at Cinema du Reel, and many more. The film was released in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and in the USA.

Losier was awarded the prestigious 2013/2014 DAAD Residency Award in Berlin to work on her new feature film Peaches Goes Bananas!, based on Canadian musician-performer Peaches. She received the Guggenheim Award to work on Cassandro ,The Exotico, a portrait of the celebrated Mexican wrestler.

She is currently on residency at the Cite des Arts, in Paris in pre-production for her new feature on Cassandro, The Exotico.

Filmography

L'Oiseau de la nuit (2015) 16mm, Color, 20 mn with Fernando, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Joao Rui De Mata, Simon Fravega, Miguel Valverde, Davide Oberto…

Peaches and Jesper Fell in the water, who Stays Afloat (2014) 16mm, color, 5 mn, with Peaches and Jesper Just

Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (2014), 16mm, Color, 20 mn, with The Moreno Sisters.

Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (2013), 16mm, Color, 15min, with Alan Vega, Liz Lamere and Dante Vega

Buyn, Object Trouve (2012), 16mm, Color, 6 mn, With Byun Chong and Kiya Chong

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), 16mm, Color, 72 mn, With Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV…

Cet Air La (2010), 16 mm, 3 mn, B & W. With April March and Julien Gasc.

Slap the Gondola! (2010), 16 mm, music April March, 15 mn. With April March, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge

Papal Broken Dance (2009), super 8 & 16 mm, music PTV3, 6 mn. With Genesis P-Orridge, Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist (2008), 16mm, sound, 27 mn. With Tony Conrad

Jaye Lady Jaye (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 mn. With Lady Jaye and PTV3

Snow Beard (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 mn. With Mike Kuchar

Manuelle Labor (2007), 16 mm, super 8, sound, 10 mn. Collaboration with Guy Maddin

Flying Saucey! (2006), 16 mm, color, sound, 9 mn. With Flux Factory.

The Ontological Cowboy (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 15mn. With Richard Foreman

Eat Your Makeup! (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 6 mn. With George Kuchar

Electrocute Your Stars (2004), 16 mm, color, sound, 13 mn. With George Kuchar

Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), 16 mm, color, sound, 13 mn. With Mike Kuchar

Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003), 16 mm, b/w, silent, 3 mn.

Sanitarium Cinema (2002), video, color, sound, 9 mn.

The Passion of Joan Arc (2002), video, color, sound, 9 mn.

Broken Blossoms (2002), video, color, sound, 10 mn.

Loula Meets Charlie (2002), video performance at The Ontological Theater, 7 mn.

The Touch Retouched (2002), video, color, sound 6 mn.

External links

• Marie Losier at the Internet Movie Database

References