Marie Losier – “Cet Air La”

Marie Losier – “Cet Air La”
(16mm transfer 3:05mins)

Marie Losier Marie Losier (b. France 1972), is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City whose work has been featured extensively. She is  currently developing  her first feature film on musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her band Psychic TV,  and the work in progress was featured at the Centre George Pompidou in 2009 . Marie’s films have been featured at the Berlin Film Festival, Fondation Cartier/Soiree Nomades (Paris), Bozar Museum (Belgium), Walter Reade-Lincoln Center (NYC) Cinemateque Francaise (Paris ) among others. She was recently commissioned by Kino Arsenal in Berlin to make a film inspired by Jack Smith for the LIVE FILMS! festival which led to the creation of  the -Slap The Gondola!. In 2008. Marie’s film portrait on musician and filmmaker, “Tony Conrad-Tony Conrad DreaMinimalist”- was featured at  Tate Modern,  Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festival, Harvard Film Archives, Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen Film Festival, Cornell Cinema. At the Berlin Film Festival, she presented 7 films in a solo show at the Forum-Arsenal “Marie Losier Goes Underground”, where she also premiered her film  on Tony Conrad. In 2006, “The Ontological Cowboy” , her film portrait on Richard Foreman, was selected for the Whitney Biennial (NY). “Electrocute Your Stars”, a film portrait on George Kuchar was featured at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art (NY) . In 2007, she curated “Sweet Sixteen” for The Rotterdam Film Festival, and was invited by The Berlin Film Festival to present “Manuelle Labor”, a film realised in collaboration with Canadian Filmmaker Guy Maddin. marielosier.net/

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