Marie Losier (born 1972 in

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) is a filmmaker and curator who has worked in

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for 25 years and has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. Losier studied literature at the

University of Nanterre Paris Nanterre University (), formerly University of Paris West, Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It is one of the most prest ...

(France, BA, 1995) and Fine Arts at

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in New York City (MFA, 2003). She has made a number of film portraits of avant-garde directors, musicians and composers, such as the Kuchar brothers,

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Tony Conrad Anthony Schmalz Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer of both ...

Genesis P-Orridge Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist who rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmi ...

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, Peter Hristoff and

Felix Kubin Felix Kubin (born Felix Knoth; 1969 in Hamburg), is an electronic musician, composer, curator, sound and radio artist. He runs the record label Gagarin Records. Life Kubin began his musical career at the age of eight with piano and electroni ...

. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists. Losier’s films are regularly shown at prestigious venues such as The Cannes Film Festival, Le Jeu de Paume, The Berlinale,

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, IDFA,

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, The Tate Modern,

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, Le Palais de Tokyo, Le Centre George Pompidou and La Cinematheque Francaise. She was included in the 2006

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(

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, N.Y.C.) She had a retrospective of her films at MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in 2018 in NYC, and a retrospective at Le Jeu De Paume - the Museum of Contemporary Art in

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in 2019. Losier’s first feature film was a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of

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and

Psychic TV Psychic TV (aka PTV or Psychick TV or several other aliases) were an English experimental music, experimental video art and music collective, formed by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and Scottish musician Alex Fergusson (musician), Alex ...

) and their partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. '' The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye'' premiered at the

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in February 2011, winning the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. She also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliothèques at Cinema du Reel, and many more awards for the documentary. The film was released in

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and in the

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. In 2009 Genesis Breyer P-Orridge described Losier's filmmaking process "It’s a very new, radical way of making documentaries, and quite honestly, we think what Marie does and the way she does it will be the template for the future." In 2013/14 Losier was awarded the prestigious DAAD Residency Award in

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and the

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to work on her new feature film ''Cassandro The Exotico!'', a portrait of the celebrated Mexican wrestler Saul Almendariz. She is currently an artist-in-residence at La Cité des Arts, Paris and her feature film ''Cassandro The Exotico!'' premiered at The Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018. It was released in France in December 2018 and will be in theaters in the US, opening at the Metrograph NYC in the summer of 2019. Losier recently had a mid-career retrospective at

NY and all of her films were acquired for the museum’s archives in November of 2018. She recently had an exhibition, in collaboration with Pauline Curnier Jardin, for the Fondation Ricard for May 2019. She premiered a new film at

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in August 2019: a feature film on the German composer and musician,

(''Felix in Wonderland!''). She presented a mid career retrospective for the Museum Le Jeu de Paume, Paris in November 2019 and for the Cinematheque of

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(November 2019); a solo exhibition for Anne Barrault’s contemporary art gallery in Paris, where she exhibited photography, paintings and film installations (January 2020) (www.galerieannebarrault.com). She has a solo show at the Film Gallery in Paris now and is preparing a solo show for the Solar Gallery at

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for 2022, and a solo show at the Contemporary Museum/Transpalette in

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for 2023. For the past four years Losier has been the coordinator and director for first year MFA cinema students at LA HEAD in

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, Switzerland (Haute École d’Art et de Design à Genève) where she teaches 16mm filmmaking.

Filmography

Feature-Length

* ''Felix in Wonderland!'' (2019), with

* ''Cassandro, the Exotico!'' (2018), starring

Saúl Armendáriz Saúl Armendáriz (born May 20, 1970) is an American-born Mexican ''luchador'', or professional wrestler, who works as an ''exótico'' for several independent promotions all over the world under the ring name Cassandro. He is a former NWA Worl ...

* '' The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye'' (2011), with

, Lady Jaye,

Shorts

* ''Electric Storm, 100 Years of Theremine'' -music video- (2020), with

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* ''Download Yourself'' - music video - (2020) * ''Which is witch?'' (2020) * ''Images of a Work #22 : Infinite Now'' (2017) * ''Masha Natasha'' (2015), co-directed with Fred Burle, Janin Halisch, and Cécile Tollu-Polonowski * ''L'Oiseau de la nuit'' (2015) * ''L’échappée Vive'' (2015), with Noël Dola & Ben Vaultier * ''Peaches and Jesper are on a boat, who stays afloat?'' (2014), with

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and Jesper Just * ''Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas!'' (2014), with Cynthia,

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, Alda, and Rossy Moreno * ''Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams'' (2013), with

, Liz Lamere and Dante Vega * ''Byun, Objet Trouvé'' (2012), with Byun Chong and Kiya Chong * ''Cet Air Là'' (2010), with April March and Julien Gasc * ''Slap the Gondola!'' (2010), with April March,

and Genesis P-Orridge * ''Papal Broken Dance'' (2009), with Genesis P-Orridge * ''DreaMinimalist'' (2008), with Tony Conrad * ''Jaye Lady Jaye'' (2008), with Lady Jaye and PTV3 * ''Snow Beard'' (2008), with

Mike Kuchar Mike Kuchar (born August 31, 1942, in New York City) is an American underground filmmaker, actor, and artist. Kuchar is notable for his low-budget and camp films such as '' Sins of the Fleshapoids'' and ''The Craven Sluck''. Biography Raised in ...

* ''Manuelle Labor'' (2007), collaboration with

* ''Flying Saucey!'' (2006), with Flux Factory * ''The Ontological Cowboy'' (2005), with

* ''Eat Your Makeup!'' (2005), with

George Kuchar George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) was an American underground film film director, director and video artist, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic. Early life and career Kuchar trained as a commercial artist at the School of Indust ...

* ''Electrocute Your Stars'' (2004), with George Kuchar * ''Bird, Bath, and Beyond'' (2003), with Mike Kuchar * ''Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine'' (2003) * ''Sanitarium Cinema'' (2002) * ''The Passion of Joan Arc'' (2002) * ''Broken Blossoms'' (2002) * ''Loula Meets Charlie'' (2002), video performance at The Ontological Theater * ''The Touch Retouched'' (2002)

References

External links

* Marie Losier's website
http://marielosier.com
* * A catalogue/publication on her work has just been printed from publisher SEMIOSE: ''Please To Meet You Marie Losier'' (Preface Nicole Brenez et Constance Dejong) https://galerieannebarrault.com/produit/marie-losier_pleased-to-meet-you {{DEFAULTSORT:Losier, Marie French documentary film directors 1972 births Living people French expatriates in the United States Place of birth missing (living people) French women film directors French women documentary filmmakers