Marie Losier

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Marie Losier (born in 1972 in France) is a filmmaker and curator currently working in New York City. Losier’s films and videos have been exhibited at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. She studied literature at the University of Nanterre in France and then pursued her studies at Fine Art in New York City. She has done multiple film portraits on various avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Losier’s unconventional, lyrical and whimsical work explores the life and work of these artists. Her films are shown at films festivals and museums, such as The Tate Modern, the Whitney Biennial, PS1, MOMA, The Berlin Film Festival, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Tribeca Film Festival, The Cinémathèqhe Française and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris. Losier started working on her first feature film 5 years ago, in which she captures the life of the musical virtuoso Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and her band Psychic TV. Her unfinished work was presented at The Centre George Pompidou in 2009 to open ‘Hors Pistes’ as well as at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris. She currently lives and works in New York and is film curator at the Alliance Française since 2000, where she presents a weekly film series. While working at the Alliance Française, she has hosted many directors and artists, such as Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, and Jeanne Moreau. She also programmed 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.

Most Popular Marie Losier Trailers

Total trailers found: 39

Here in Lisbon Trailer (2015)

24 April 2015

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars.

Barking in the Dark Trailer (2025)

01 February 2025

Marie Losier invites us into the world of The Residents, an iconic figure in American avant-garde music for over fifty years.

Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams Trailer (2014)

03 July 2014

This intimate portrait will reveal uncommon stories of groundbreaking visual artist and pioneer of minimalist electronic rock, Alan Vega, vocalist and composer for 1970s and 80s punk/post punk duo Suicide.

The Return of Tragedy Trailer (2020)

11 September 2020

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty.

Eat My Makeup! Trailer (2010)

10 April 2010

With George Kuchar, Marie Losier, Jason Livingston, Paul Shepard. Five winsome damsels picnic on the roof of a warehouse in charming Long Island City, a forest of skyscrapers gleaming across the river.

Bearded Birds Trailer (2022)

24 May 2022

A warm and nostalgic hiss of a spinning vinyl meets the 16 mm film’s grainy image. The music starty

Taxidermize Me Trailer (2021)

20 July 2021

A few days before the museum reopens, director Marie Losier is invited to be the first to re-enter and film her discovery of the place.

Which Is Witch ? Trailer (2020)

21 June 2020

Louis II de Barrière has been petrified in the ice since the dawn of time. We find him in a forest, luckily he is alive ! Three witch sisters try to defrost it and unravel its musical mystery.

Waltz Me Trust Me Trailer (2016)

01 January 2016

Musical performance of Felix Kubin at the piano, but not any piano... an AIR PIANO!

The Blessing of the Animals Trailer (2003)

15 June 2003

The yearly gathering at the Catherdral of St. John the Divine, shot in 16mm black and white. Cats, dogs, and perhaps a lamb, get blessed.

Mr. Alien Brain Vs. The Skinwalkers Trailer (2008)

01 December 2008

Flying Saucey! Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with two-hundred and eighty pounds of spaghetti.

The Prayers of Cupie LaRue Trailer (2005)

31 August 2005

A girl with two male companions in a room is a space where the mind's eye wanders!

Bim Bam Boom, Las Luchas Morenas Trailer (2014)

07 February 2014

Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas, is about three Mexican sisters, professional wrestlers, whose lives, lived according to their own ideas, are a struggle but also a lot fun.

Draw Me Now Trailer (2018)

31 December 2018

Artist Peter Hristoff teaches painting the ay a filmmaker or theater director commandeers his actors, with the class as his playground, his stage.

Hermaphrodite Trailer (2014)

06 June 2014

HERMAPHRODITE is Marie Losier's dreamy, whimsical splash of a music video for Brooklyn-based musician Marisol Limon.

The Ontological Cowboy Trailer (2005)

18 June 2005

"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater.

L'oiseau de la nuit Trailer (2015)

24 April 2015

Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over thirty years in golden dresses.

Byun, Objet trouvé Trailer (2012)

31 December 2012

Acclaimed mixed-media artist Chong Gon Byun uses found and discarded objects to create intricate sculptures that explore the clash between post-industrial civilization and the present consumerist culture in his surrealist oeuvre.

Peaches and Jesper Are On A Boat, Who Stays Afloat? Trailer (2013)

17 September 2013

Venice biennial, gondolas, unhappy couples, too much art. Peaches screaming an Italian opera to her sweet uninterested companion while strange poeple appear with black beards.

Electrocute Your Stars Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

In this dream portrait, George Kuchar travels through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries.

Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine Trailer (2003)

11 November 2003

For 3 months, every day at 1pm I would hide in the copy room at work and lay my face on the xerox machine.

Snow Beard Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

A moving tribute to New York icon Mike Kuchar, filmed on his last day before leaving Manhattan to reo

Cet air-là Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

Singer April March and musician Julien Gasc perform the famous French song of the title while flying over a superimposed dreamscape of clouds, birds, bubbles, smoke, and glitter.

Experiments in Terror 3 Trailer (2009)

31 March 2009

The third in the series of experimental "horror" features, this collection features the shorts The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase (1999) by Cary Burtt, J.

The Passion of Joan of Arc Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

The story of "Joan of Arc" is one of the most frequently told tales in cinema's hundred plus year history.

Burnout Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

A metropolis awash in electrical overdrive crashes in the heat of summer and sends a Bronxite into the clutches of a waterworld further north.

Manuelle Labor Trailer (2007)

02 February 2007

A woman with an oddly hairy belly gives birth to a pair of hands in Marie Losier’s giddily inventive "portrait" of filmmaker Guy Maddin, done as a collaboration between the two iconoclasts.

Bird, Bath and Beyond Trailer (2004)

30 January 2004

In this dream-portrait, Mike Kuchar floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Trailer (2012)

08 March 2012

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV +) and their wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'Pandrogyne' project.

Peaches Goes Bananas Trailer (2025)

05 March 2025

For the past 17 years, Marie Losier has captured the dynamic and provocative essence of Peaches, the trailblazing feminist queer icon.

Cassandro the Exotico! Trailer (2018)

05 December 2018

After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring.

The Touch Retouched Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

In 1971, Ingmar Bergman made his only American film, THE TOUCH, starring ensemble regulars Max Von Syndow and Bibi Anderson, along with early 70's everyman Elliott Gould.

Felix in Wonderland Trailer (2019)

08 August 2019

Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20.

Paradox Trailer (2013)

01 January 2013

The film illustrates the paradox that 64=65.

Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist Trailer (2008)

10 January 2008

The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of avant-garde directors (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman), DreaMinimalist offers an insightful and hilarious encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his association with Jack Smith.

Slap The Gondola! Trailer (2009)

28 October 2009

Musical with music, musicians, muses and fishes... On a giant ferry, two mermaids (Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge) play violin to attract the fish from the sea, when suddenly a giant fish with 30 dancers in its stomach lands on board.

Extra Ultra Super Gal Trailer (2024)

19 November 2024

Hi I'm Extra Ultra Super Gal and today I'm helping my friend Jane with issues of period overflow. Come meet my friends!

Electric Storm: 100 Years of Theremin Trailer (2020)

18 September 2020

"Electric Storm" celebrates the beginning of electronic music marked by the 100th birthday of the Theremin - Dorit Chrysler envisioned its setting in a “Cathedral of Science” namely at CERN, the international Nuclear Research Center at Geneva.