Marie Losier

Marie Losier (b.France, 1972), is a filmmaker and curator who’s worked in New York City for 23 years and has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. Losier studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France, BA, 1995) and Fine Arts at Hunter College, City University of New York (MFA, 2003). She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers, such as the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega, Peter Hristoff, Peaches and Felix Kubin. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.

Losier’s films are shown at prestigious venues such as The Cannes Film Festival, Le Jeu de Paume, The Berlinale, Rotterdam Film Festival, IDFA , The Tate Modern, MoMA, Le Palais de Tokyo, Le Centre Georges Pompidou and La Cinémathèque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, 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 Paris in 2019.

Losier’s first feature film was a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and their partner Lady Jaye. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 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 Cinéma du Réel; the film was released in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and in the USA.

In 2013/14 Losier was awarded the prestigious DAAD Residency Award in Berlin and the Guggenheim Award to work on her new feature film Cassandro The Exotico!, a portrait of the celebrated Mexican wrestler Saul Almendariz. Cassandro The Exotico! produced by Tamara Films, premiered at The Cannes Film Festival in May of 2018 (ACID CANNES). It was released in France in 2018 and in 2019 in the US (it premiered at the Metrograph NYC). www.urbandistribution.fr/films/cassandro-the-exotico

Losier had a mid-career retrospective at MoMA in New York City and all of her films were acquired for the museum’s archives in November of 2018.

She premiered a new film at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in August 2019: a feature film on the German composer and musician, Felix Kubin (Felix in Wonderland!). The Film was produced by Ecce Films.

She presented a mid career retrospective for the Museum Le Jeu de Paume, Paris (www.jeudepaume.org) in November 2019 and for the Cinematheque of Athens (November 2019); She had an exhibition, in collaboration with Pauline Curnier Jardin, for the Fondation Ricard for May 2019 (www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com), 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 just had a solo show at the Film Gallery in Paris (nov-dec 2021) and at The Solar Gallery in Vila Do Conde in Portugal for 2022. She is now showing in a group show at the Mac Val Museum (Histoires Vraies 2023).
She just presented a new solo exhibition at Anne Barrault's Galery in June/July 2023.
She is preparing a solo show at the FIAF Galery of Phnom Penh/Cambodge for January 2024, at Le Creux de L’Enfer in Thiers for October 2024, at the Contemporary Museum/Transpalette in Bourges for 2025 and at the Frac Dunkerque in 2025.

She has been working on a film portrait for now 4 years on the band THE RESIDENTS from San Francisco, co produced by Barberousse Films.
Also finishing her film portrait on Peaches, PEACHES GOES BANANAS, co produced by Tamara Films.
She is also developing with her co-writer Antoine Barraud, her first fiction feature, a Musical, SUGAR BOMB, produced by Tamara Films and Kidam.

For the past six years Losier has been the coordinator and director for first year MFA cinema students at LA HEAD in Geneva, Switzerland (Haute École d’Art et de Design à Genève, www.hesge.ch/head/en/school/about) where she teaches 16mm filmmaking and Foley Art..

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
https://livre.fnac.com/a15635438/Nicole-Brenez-Pleased-to-meet-you-Marie-Losier

Selected Awards/Grants and Fellowships

Vila Albertine USA-FRANCE (2023)
Jury Film Villa Medicis Rome-ITALY (2022)
Fondation Des Artists pour le projet The Residents, Behind The Mask (2022)
CNC, Court Métrage pour le film The Residents, Behind The Mask, soutien pour
la réalisation en production avec Barberousse Films (FR) (2021)
CNC, Moyen Métrage pour le film Peaches Goes Bananas (2021), soutien pour
la réalisation en production avec Tamara Films
Le Laboratoire de la Création - Artist Residency Sept 2020- feb 2021 (FR)
Acquisition d’oeuvres d’art au CNAP - Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques 2020
Acquisition d’oeuvres a la Collection du Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris 2020
Villa Belleville - Artist Residency Sept-dec 2019 (FR)
FNAGP et Hamburg post prod grant pour le film Felix Kubin, Atomium Vertigo 2019
CNC, Court Métrage pour le film Felix Kubin, Atomium Vertigo, soutien pour
la réalisation en production avec Ecce Films (FR) (2017)
Résidence Espace en Cours - Paris, France (2016-2017)
Artist Residency Citée des Arts de la Ville de Paris (2015)
Brouillon D'un Reve -SCAM-France- Aide au Développement for Cassandro The Exotico (2015)
CNC - Aide a L'écriture et Aide au Développement for Cassandro The Exotico (2015)
CNAP-Centre national des arts plastiques-Paris-France: Production Grant (2015)
Moulin D'Ande- Screenwriting Residency (France 2014-2015)
Artist Residency Villa Arson-Nice (2014 & 2015)
Jerome Foundation Grant (2014)
Cité des Arts de la ville de Paris Residence/France(2014)
DAAD Artist Residency Berlin (2013)
Guggenheim Artist Fellowship, Film and Video (2013)
Wexner Arts Center – Filmmaker Award (2012)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2012)
Prix Louis Marcorelles and Prix des Bibliotheques ( 2011-Cinema du Reel – France)
Jerome Foundation Grant (2010)
NYSCA-New York State Council for the Arts Production Grant (2008)
CNAP-Centre national des arts plastiques-Paris-France: Production Grant (2008)
Sarah Jacobson Grant (2008)
Whitney Biennial 2006 /film portrait on Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy (2006)
NYSCA-New York State Council for the Arts Production Grant (2006)
Experimental Television Center LTD (2006)
Jerome Foundation, Jerome Hill Centennial (2005)
NYSCA-New York State Council for the Arts Production Grant (2004)
Flaherty Film Seminar, full grant (2004)
Vermont Studio Center, full grant/residency (2002)

Selected Awards for Felix In Wonderland! 2019
Filmmaker Award-Filmmakers Best Film Award Film Festival Milan (Italy)
Filmmaker’s Best Film Award Doc of the Bay film festival of San Sebastien (Spain)
Best Film Award by Students FAME Film Festival-Gaite Lyrique (France-Paris)
Best Director for Torino Underground Cinefest (Italy)

Selected Awards for Cassandro The Exotico!, released 2018 in France and 2019 in USA
Audience award - Viva Mexico (Paris, France, 2018)
Jury award - In and Out Film Festival de Nice (France, 2018)
Best directing award - Gijón International Film Festival (Spain, 2018)

Selected Awards for The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Debut Feature Film released 2011 in France, USA, Mexico, Canada and Germany
Grand Prize – Indilisboa Film Festival (Portugal)
Teddy Award (Berlin Film Festival – Forum)
Caligari Award (Berlin Film Festival – Forum)
Prix Louis Marcorelles and Prix des Bibliotheques (Cinema du Reel – France)
Audience Award-Bafici-Buenos Aires Film Festival (Argentina)
Artistic Achievement Award – Outfest Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Sanfic Special Mention – International Competititon (Chile)
Audience Award – Special Mention – (Festival du Nouveau Cinema – Quebec)

Retrospectives
2025 Transpalette in Bourges (France)
2024 Casa Del Lago/ UNAMI (Mexico)
2024 Le Creux de L Enfer, Thiers (France)
2024 Solo Exhibition at the Galery de l’Institut Francais Cambodge- Phnom Penh (Cambodge)
2022 Solo Exhibition and film screenings at Vila Do Conde (Portugal)
2021 Solo Exhibition at Film Gallery (France)
2020 Solo Exhibition Anne Barraud Galery (France)
2019 Jeu de Paume Museum - Mid Career retrospective (France)
2019 Cinematheque of Athens - Retrospective and masterclass (Greece)
2018 MoMA- Museum of Modern Art of New York City - Mid career retrospective (USA)
2018 Spoutnik, Geneva, retrospective (Switzerland)
2017 Pink Life QueerFest of Ankara - Solo show films et masterclass (Turkey)
2017 Milan Filmmaker Festival -FOCUS on Marie Losier Films, Lectures and Catalogue (Italy)
2016 Minsk Film and painting show in Modern Art Museum (Belarus)
2015 St Petersburg Art Fair (Russia)
2014 Moscow BEAT Film and music (Russia)
2014 Winnipeg Cinematek (Canada)
2014 LUFF Lausanne (Switzerland)
2014 San Sebastian (Spain)
2013 DAAD Screening at Arsenal Kino Berlin (Germany)
2013 BAFICI Film Festival/Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2013 Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Canada)
2013 Pera Museum-Istanbul (Turkey)

Education
M.F.A. in Painting - Hunter College (1995)
M.F.A. in American Poetry and Literature - Nanterre University/France (2003)
Bachelors Degree in English Literature- Nanterre University/France (1993)

HEAD, MFA Cinema Geneva, Coordinator for the first year students and professor of 16mm filmmaking
(Sept 2017 - June 2022, Switzerland)
Invited Artist at Les Beaux Arts de Bayonne/Biarritz 2021-22 (France) for the third year students
Bard College in New York : Guest Professor for the graduate program of Cinema, (June - July, USA)

Selected Press
-So Films, November 2021
-SEMIOSE: Please To Meet You Marie Losier (Preface Nicole Brenez et Constance Dejong)
https://livre.fnac.com/a15635438/Nicole-Brenez-Pleased-to-meet-you-Marie-Losier
- Artforum, Marie Losier, avril 2020
- Millenium Film Journal n°70, A playground for lmmaking, an interview with Marie Losier, 2019
- Les Inrocks, Marie Losier, Yann Gonzalez et Bertrand Mandico réunis dans une expo parisienne, 2019
- Le Monde, Le monde étrange et merveilleux de Marie Losier, novembre 2019
- Les cahiers du Cinéma, Les créatures de Marie Losier, avril 2019
- The Art Newspaper, édition française, Marie Losier : les traits de l’avant-garde, mars 2019
- Le Monde, Le catch au dé de la transgression, 2018
- Libération, Cassandro the exotico! l’arène des brushings, 2018
- Cahiers du Cinéma, L’amitié, 2018
- New York Times, Provocateur of the body, now at its mercy, 2018
- The New Yorker, At the Movies, 2018
- Mediapart, Cannes 2018 : Cassandro the exotico! de Marie Losier, 2018
- Society, Cassandro the exotico! : paillettes et stigmates, 2018
- SoFilm no66, Le lm de la semaine : Cassandro the exotico!, 2018
- Slate, Cassandro the exotico! à Cannes, documentaire sur un catcheur cassé, 2018
- Les Inrockuptibles, Cassandro, 2018
- Technikart, Marie Losier et Cassandro, 2018
- Libération, Ring Parade, 2018
- Le Monde, Cannes 2018 : Cassandro, exotique catcheur fellinien, 2018
- Trois Couleurs, Cinéma Queer, 2018
- Belavia Air, 4 pages sur le cinéma de Marie Losier, Bonjour Happiness!, 2017
- RÉPLIQUES, revue d’entretiens autour du Cinéma # 5, Marie Losier par Noémie Luciani, 2015
- BREF, Revue Cinéma Agence du Court Métrage, Carte Blanche Marie Losier, 2015
- Cahiers du Cinema : Lisbon Story par Ariel Sweitzer, Juillet-Août 2015
- Le Monde, Les balades de Marie Losier, cinéaste transatlantique, par Noémie Luciani, 2014
- Just A Million Dreams, un lm de Marie Losier « Hello, I’m a Punk! », par Alexandre Breton, 2014 Ouvrage paru : Alan Vega – Conversation avec un Indien, éditions Le Texte Vivant, Paris, 2013
- Cahiers du Cinéma, Chantal Akerman et Marie Losier, par Nicholas Elliott, 2012
- Filmmaker Magazine Publication, Love Song, par Esther Robinson, 2012
- Cahiers du Cinéma, Je serai ton miroir, par Stéphane du Mesnildot, 2012
- The Brooklyn Rail, Outtakes, par Steve Dalachinsky, 2012
- The New Yorker, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, par Richard Porton, 2011
- Dazed and Confused, Vol 19, Cut and Wrapped Film News, par Sam Elliot Connor, 2010
- Le Film Musical by Franck Lamy, Mac Val Publication, 2009
- CINEASTE, The Berlin International Film Festival par Richard Porton, Summer 2008
- PAJ, A Journal Of Performance and Art, WHAT IS A FRENCH WESTERN? One Part Reality To Two Parts Fiction, par Kristine Marx, PAJ 86, pp. 20–30 (2007)
- Metrotimes, Screwball Shorts, Marie Losier’s silent icks celebrate 60s voices, par Sabine Gruffat, 2007
- Electrocute Your Stars!, par David Filipi, Wexner Center for the Arts-Museum Publication, 2006