Marie Losier

Bio

Marie Losier is the most effervescent and psychologically accurate portrait artist working in film today. Her films wriggle with the energy and sweetness of a broken barrel full o’ sugar worms!!!!
No one makes pictures like Marie, Edith Sitwell’s inner Tinkerbell !!!!!!!
Guy Maddin-2008

Marie Losier’s movies are as sweet and sassy as her name and well worth a gander or goose by all off beat cineastes. So beat off to a different drum and marvel at the wad of wonders that only a French woman could generate. Take a trip down a sprocketed spiral of celluloid strips into a glory hole of impressive dimensions. What pops through will surely enlarge with persistent, ocular manipulations.
George Kuchar-2008

Marie Losier, born in France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. In 2008 she was invited to present her new film portrait on musician and filmmaker, Tony Conrad-Tony Conrad DreaMinimalist- at the TATE MODERN and THE BASEL ART FAIR and at The Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festival, The Havard Film Archives, The Kassel Documentary Film Festival, The Copenhagen Film Festival, Cornell Cinema among others. At the The Berlin Film Festival, she presented 7 films in a solo show at the Forum-Arsenal “Marie Losier Goes Underground”, where she premiered her new film on Tony Conrad. She was also included for the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, NY) with her film on Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy and at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, NY) with Electrocute Your Stars, film on George Kuchar. In 2007, she curated a show for The Rotterdam Film Festival, “Sweet Sixteen“. She was also invited to The Berlin Film Festival to present a new film that she made in collaboration with Canadian Filmmaker Guy Maddin, Manuelle Labor.

She has started her first feature film, a portrait of on the musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and her band Psychic TV. The work in progress will be shown in 2009 at the Centre George Pompidou in April to open Hors Pistes.

She had her first Solo Show called OUTTAKES at the Luxe Gallery (53 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002) in September 2008 on outtakes from her feature film on Genesis P-Orridge.

She has also shown her work at P.S.1 (Contemporary Art Center, NYC), Tribeca Film Festival (NYC), Berlin Film Festival (Germany), Rotterdam International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia), The Seoul Film Festival (Korea), The Lausanne Film Festival (Swiss), The Wexner Art Center (OI), LUXE Gallery (NYC), Andrew Kreps Gallery (NYC), White Column Gallery (NYC), The Black Maria Film Festival(NY), The Biennial of Saint Etienne (France), The New York Underground Film Festival (NYC), Festival Nouveau Cinema (Canada), Ismailia International Film Festival (Egypt), Stockholm International Film Festival (Netherlands), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Ocularis (NY), Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (NYC), Detroit Film Center, Cinematexas (TX), Chicago Film Festival, British Film Institute (London), Berlin Film Kinemathek: Kino Arsenal ( Germany)Au Grand Action (Paris), MAC/VAL (Musée d’Art Contemporain, France) and many others.

In 2000, she became the film curator at FIAF/The French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series. She has hosted many notable directors and artists, including Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Bertrand Tavernier, and Anouk Aimée.

She also programed experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and Ocularis and today programs and bring experimental films series in Europe and all over in the States.

She has also performed in films by George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Jackie Raynal, and in plays by Juliana Francis and Tony Torn.

She is on the board of the Film Coop in NYC.