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

“I set with a smile on my face. I wish there were more people like the character in your films, in the world. It takes you on a ride that weaves the real and surreal.”
Charles Burnett-2006

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 2009, she was invited to The Centre George Pompidou in Paris to present her work in progress on her first feature film-a portrait of on the musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and her band Psychic TV. In 2009 she has shown at the Berlin Film Festival, La Fondation Cartier/Soiree Nomades, The Bozar Museum in Belgium, at the Walter Reade-Lincoln Center in NYC and La Cinemateque Francaise in Paris among others. She was invited to be on the Jury for the ERA NEW HORIZONS International Film Festival in Poland in July. She was commissioned by the Kino Arsenal in Berlin, to make a film inspired by Jack Smith for the LIVE FILMS! festival that took place in the last week of October at the Kino Arsenal and Haul Theater. For this event she made a new film-Slap The Gondola!.

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. In 2007, she curated a show for The Rotterdam Film Festival, “Sweet Sixteen” and was invited to The Berlin Film Festival to present a new film-Manuelle Labor- that she made in collaboration with Canadian Filmmaker Guy Maddin. She was also included in 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, a film portrait on George Kuchar.

She started her first feature film, 6 years ago, a portrait of on the musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, his wife Lady Jaye and her band Psychic TV, which should be finished by the end of 2010.

She had her first Solo Show- OUTTAKES at Luxe Gallery (53 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002) in September 2008, on outtakes from the feature film on Genesis P-Orridge. Recently she has been showing her video work, Papal Brokendance in a group show in France at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes-Popism V- an installation on musicals in contemporary video work, curated by Frank Lamy, head of the Mac Val Museum in Paris (November 2009 to January 2010).

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, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Jackie Raynal and Anouk Aimée.

She also programed experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and Ocularis for many years 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 and The Flux Factory in Queens.