MARIE LOSIER / / / / / / / / / / Filmmaker / Artist / / / / / / / / / / / [email protected] / 06 95 55 39 09 / / / / / / / / / / / / / Marie Losier, born in France, is a 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 the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega and Felix Kubin. 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 Georges Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, N.Y.C). 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 pre- miered 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 an art residency in Paris in post-production for her new feature on Cassandro, The Exotico, as well as a multi facets film (installation, film and performance) on the German composer and musician, Felix Kubin (Felix Kubin, The Man With The German Haircut). She is also preparing a retrospective of all of her films for MoMA, Museum of Modern Art of New York City, which will open in June 2018. / / / / WORKS IN PROGRESS / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Retrospectives - Marie Losier at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (USA, june 2018) - Marie Losier at Spoutnik, Geneva (Switzerland, fev. 2018) DVD release : Films Portraits by Marie Losier, by Re-Voir, Paris (France, dec. 2017) Screenings : Cassandro, the Exotico!, Work In Progress pitching, Les Arcs European Film Festival (France, December 2017), Cinéma Du Réel (France, March 2018), Venice Film Festival (Italy, October 2018) Feature Films - Cassandro, the Exotico! (documentary, produced by Tamara Films and House on Fire) - Peaches goes Bananas (fiction) - Felix Kubin, The Man With The German Haircut (2017) (docu fiction & installation, produced by Ecce Films, co-produced by Bandits-Mages, 2017) Film on Chaya Czernowin, Israeli composer and Walter Bigelow Rosen, Professor of Music at Harvard University, commissioned by IRCAM and Cinéma Du Réel, premiered at the Philharmonic museum of Paris Exhibition in collaboration with Pauline Curnier Jardin at Galerie Carée, Villa Arson, Nice (France, oct. 2017) / / / / FILMOGRAPHY / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Images of a Work #22 : Infinite Now, 2017, video, 20 min, color, sound, commissioned by IRCAM and Cinéma Du Réel, film on Chaya Czernowin, composer and Professor of music at Harvard University L’Oiseau de la Nuit (2015), 16mm, 20 min, color, with Deborah Kristal, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Joao Rui Guerra DaMata… Omnibus Film, HERE LISBON, produced by Indielisboa with Denis Cote, Gabriel Abrantes and Dominga Sotomaya L’échappée Vive (2015), video, 24 min, color, co-directed with Catherine Libert, with Noël Dola & Ben Vaultier Peaches and Jesper are on a boat, who stays afloat ? (2014), video, color, 5 min, with Peaches and Jesper Just / Venice Biennial Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (2014), 16mm, color, 13 min, with The Moreno Sisters Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (2013), 16mm, color, 13 min, with Alan Vega, Liz Lamere and Dante Vega The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), 16mm, color, sound, 72 min, with Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV… Buyn, Objet Trouvé (2012), 16mm, color, 6min, with Byun Chong and Kiya Chong Cet Air Là (2010), 16 mm, B&W, 3 min, with April March and Julien Gasc Slap the Gondola! (2010), 16 mm, 15min, music April March, with April March, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge Papal Broken Dance (2009), super 8 & 16 mm, 6 min, music PTV3, with Genesis P-Orridge Tony Conrad, Dreaminimalist (2008), 16mm, sound, 27 min, with Tony Conrad Jaye Lady Jaye (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Lady Jaye and PTV3 Snow Beard (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Mike Kuchar Manuelle Labor (2007), 16 mm, super 8, sound, 10 min, collaboration with Guy Maddin Flying Saucey! (2006), 16 mm, color, sound, 9 min, with Flux Factory The Ontological Cowboy (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 15min, with Richard Foreman Eat Your Makeup! (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 6 min, with George Kuchar Electrocute Your Stars (2004), 16 mm, color, sound, 10 min, with George Kuchar Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), 16 mm, color, sound, 13 min, with Mike Kuchar Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003), 16 mm, B&W, silent, 3 min Sanitarium Cinema (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min The Passion of Joan Arc (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min Broken Blossoms (2002), video, color, sound, 10 min Loula Meets Charlie (2002), video performance at the Ontological Theater, 7 min The Touch Retouched (2002), video, color, sound, 6 min / / / / DEBUT FEATURE FILM / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (2011) 16mm, color, sound, 72 min with Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV… Released in: France (Épicentre Films, 2011), Germany (Arsenal, 2011), Mexico (Cinetemateca de Mexico, 2012), USA (Adopt Films, 2012), Canada (Films We Like, 2011) Awards Grand Prize, Indielisboa Film Festival (Portugal) Teddy Award (Berlin Film Festival, Forum) Caligari Award (Berlin Film Festival, Forum) Prix Louis Marcorelles and Prix des Bibliothèques (Cinéma du Réel, France) Audience Award, BAFICI - Buenos Aires Film Festival (Argentina) Artistic Achievement Award, Outfest Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA) Sanfic Special Mention, International Competititon (Chile) Audience Award, Special Mention, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Quebec, Canada) Press « A magnificent portrait of the trans genre artist Genesis P-Orridge, a celebration of life and cinema » Libération « Astonishing, impressive […] A performance in itself » Télérama « A magnificent film, wild and so moving, about the possibility of reinventing oneself and the freedom to be oneself » Les Inrocks «A moving blend between fantasy and whimsicality (...) A true trans genre love story where love makes the bodies mutate » Cahiers du Cinéma « P- Orridge is revealed as an innate artist who inflects and illuminates every aspect of existence, high and low, exalted and humble, with a singular sensibility; Losier’s film captures the poignant paradoxes, the ecstasies and burdens, of the transformation of life into art.» — Richard Brody, The New Yorker «4 Stars. Enthralling! Gorgeously shot with a handheld Bolex 16mm camera. A quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve.» The New York Time Selected festivals - International Film Festival of Seville (Spain) - Screening with Genesis P-Orridge, « Everyone’s Heart is Full of Fire », Fahrenheit Flax Foundation (USA) - Berlin International Film Festival, Forum: world 1re of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Germany) - FID Marseille, International Film Festival (France) - Centre Georges Pompidou, Hors-Pistes : Marie Losier, April March, Julien Gasc (France) - Festival Paris Cinéma, International Competition (France) - Punto de Vista, International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra (Pampelune, Spain) - SXSW, South by South West (Austin, USA) - Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, USA) - Cinema du Réel, French première (Paris, France) - Istanbul Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey) - BAFICI Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Tribeca film Festival, NY Film Premiere (New-York, USA) - Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, Japan) - San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, USA) - Jeonju International Film Festival (Seoul, South Korea) - Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada) - Indie Lisboa Festival (Lisbon, Portugal) - Doc Avic (Tel Aviv, Israel) - Distrital Mexico City Cinematek (Mexico) - Beat film Festival (Moscow, Russia) - Sheffield Doc/Fest (Sheffield, England) - Edinburgh International Film Festival, Black Box (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Bam Cinematek (Brooklyn, USA) - Outfest (L.A, USA) - Era New Horizon International Film Festival (Wroclaw, Poland) - Melbourne Film Festival (Australia) - Sanfic International Festival of Santiago (Chili) - Athens International Film Festival (Greece) - Helsinki Film Festival (Finland) - Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) - Centre Georges Pompidou, ASVOFF 2011 / A Shaded View on Fashion Film (Paris, France) - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, 40th Anniversary (Canada) - Viennale Film Festival (Vienna, Austria) - Morelia