Movies: Marie Losier

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored....

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 his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transfor...

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. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about b...

Peaches Goes Bananas takes an intimate look at artist and musician Peaches' playful and intoxicating creative world. Real name Merrill Beth Nisker, Peaches left home and her job as a schoolteacher in Canada with the ambition of making a name for hers...

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. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head....

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

The story of "Joan of Arc" is one of the most frequently told tales in cinema's hundred plus year history. This brand new version is a post-mortem/post- modern collaboration between the Great Dane Carl Dreyer and Marie Losier, who inserts herself int...

A warm and nostalgic hiss of a spinning vinyl meets the 16 mm film’s grainy image. The music starts and, while the sound of a storm echoes in the distance, the image is illuminated by iridescent superimpositions: visions of bodies experiencing a pani...

While in NYC, home sweet home, Felix Kubin came to visit as we were still working on the feature film FElix in Wonderland, and we were asked to do a performance together at PS1. So Felix wrote a new song and I proposed to do a 2h live film shoot and ...

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..who stays afloat?...

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. April March,...

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....

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. A battle for sauce and survival ensues....

"The theater is about sex." At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. THE ONTOLOGICAL COWBOY documents Foreman’s invocation of the "manifest destiny" of the avant-garde theater, King Cowboy Rufus strolli...

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. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many ...

A moving tribute to New York icon Mike Kuchar, filmed on his last day before leaving Manhattan to relocate to San Francisco...

How do you make a portrait of a music group when nobody knows who the members are? Marie Losier takes up the task and travels to San Francisco to create a documentary on cult band The Residents. There, we meet Homer Flynn, president of The Cryptic Co...

Small performance with Jackie Raynal and Marie Losier. Simply set up by Marie in an empty New York gallery, which she packed with props and shooting devices, with the idea to invite friends of her to come and shoot short films together. Good times wi...

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Artist Peter Hristoff teaches painting the ay a filmmaker or theater director commandeers his actors, with the class as his playground, his stage. The students surround a field of models in handmade costumes who dance, pause, create emotions, and sta...