Marie Losier
Marie LOSIER (1972, France) is a filmmaker and curator who has worked in New York for 23 years and whose films and videos are regularly screened in museums, galleries, biennales and film festivals. She studied literature at the Nanterre University and Fine Arts in New York before directing numerous avant-garde, intimate, poetic and playful portraits of filmmakers, musicians and artists such as Alan Vega, the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Felix Kubin and Genesis P-Orridge.
Filmography
Chick-chick (2000, short), The Touch Retouched (2001, short), Marie-onette (2002, short), The Passion of Joan of Arc (2002, short), Sanitarium Cinema (2002, short), Mike Kuchar is on my roof (2003, short), Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003, short), Bird, Bath and Beyond (2003, short), Electrocute Your Stars (2004, short) The Ontological Cowboy (2005, short), Flying Saucey! (2006, short), Jaye Lady Jaye (2008, short), Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist (2008, short), Cassandro the Exotico! (2018), Felix In Wonderland (2019, doc), Taxidermisez-moi (2021, short), Peaches Goes Bananas (2024, doc), The Residents (2024), Skyzo in Limbo (2024, short)
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Barking in the Dark
Marie Losier | 37' | France | World premiere
A creative, engaging portrait of San Francisco cult band The Residents. -
Shalmont Field
Shannon Plumb | 5' | USA | None
Short and apparent classic. The female film maker plays both the good and the bad cowboy for the final shoot out. -
Echoes of Bats and Men
Jo Dery | 7' | USA | European premiere
With a small bat as the protagonist and its nocturnal flight over historic and industrial Rhode Island. -
Sunbeam Hunter
Jonathan Schwartz | 3' | USA | None
Poetic impression of a journey after the shadows or if necessary an echo before it disappears into the clouds. -
The Ontological Cowboy
Marie Losier | 17' | USA | None
A sign by the motorway to Kiev causes quite a commotion. A fictional film based on a dramatic event. -
The Red and the Blue Gods
Ben Russell | 8' | USA | None
Small handmade film with a grand cosmic story about coloured gods who touch the sun.