Par Arlt
Avec Sing Sing et Eloise Decazes
Realisation Marie Losier et Simon Fravega
Couleur, 16mm, 5min, decembre 2022
À l’image de l’histoire de la ville de Thiers et de ses pentes raides, le clip nous parle de la dégringolade d’une population, de sa nature et de sa culture, incapable de résister aux forces de l’attraction qui les entrainent inéluctablement vers... la zone industrielle. On joue avec les mots comme avec les images, glissement de sens et glissement de terrain.
Au sommet de la ville fantôme, le centre historique ayant été déserté, nos deux acolytes du groupe ARLT se révèlent devant une nature préfabriquée, entourés par les machinistes bariolés d’un décor d’opérette à ciel ouvert. L’ambiance est festive, voire enfantine, résolument burlesque.
Cependant le dénivelé est tel que tout est de guingois, ça penche, ça tourne, ça roule. La troupe se met à dévaler sans pouvoir s’arrêter, entraînant avec elle cette nature en carton-pâte et tout le monde finit par être tourneboulé !
Film Loop for Exhibitions shot on 16mm, 4 min, color with David Legrand, Simon Fravega and Severine Hubard. 2022
Film de Marie Losier et David Legrand
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Script : Marie Losier, David Legrand. Photography : Marie Losier. Editing : Marie Losier. Music : Éloise Decazes. Costumes: Elise Cribier-Delande. Sound : Marie Losier. Production : Marie Losier.
2021, couleur, 16mm, avec David Legrand, Jean-Pierre Petit, Simon Fravega, François Chaignaud, Eloise Decaze…
Premiere au FID MARSEILLE 2021, competition Flash
Commande du Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Marie Losier (on se
souvient du bouleversant The ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye et du si
réjouissant Cassandro the Exotico) nous gâte d’un bijou joueur et onirique,
concentré de son univers poétique. Armée de sa caméra 16 mm comme
d’une baguette magique, elle redonne vie aux animaux figés dans l’éternité.
Taxidermisez-moi fait honneur, une fois encore, à son art de la fabrique et
du collage. Corps dorés, camouflés, pourvus de poils, de plumes, de becs,
d’ongles… Le résultat : une explosion de couleurs, de sons, de textures au
coeur de ce musée endormi, découvert comme par le trou d’une serrure.
Célébrant le compagnonnage de la bête et de l’homme, Taxidermisez-moi
se joue des frontières entre le monde animal et celui des hommes. Dans
les yeux des étranges créatures aux aguets qui côtoient ours, cervidés,
oiseaux de toute espèce, se lit une même innocence, un même étonnement.
Quand retentit le bruit du fusil, les étranges créatures, ses amis, s’écroulent,
métamorphosés en renards. Sous l’espièglerie et la douceur premières d’un
monde ré-enchanté, tout en fêtant l’extraordinaire variété du vivant, Marie
Losier creuse non sans mélancolie ni inquiétude la « question animale ». Le
conte tourne au manifeste, certes modeste, et qui, surprise, emprunte sa voix
à André Malraux, comme un appel à résister.
Peuplé de références, Taxidermisez-moi dessine en filigrane l’idée qu’artistes et
animaux partagent dans leur chair la même condition, menacés du même fusil.
Produire de la beauté comme ultime acte de résistance face à « l’hypothèse
tout à fait fondée d’une planète sans singes et sans animaux sauvages », aller
« sur les lieux de l’art qui sont les lieux où l’on se souvient de cette perte »
(Jean-Christophe Bailly), c’est nous obliger, spectateurs, à penser ce monde
à venir où la beauté du vivant ne saurait se trouver qu’au coeur d’un musée.
(Claire Lasolle) FID MARSEILLE 2021
Festivals:
-Premiere au FID MARSEILLE 2021, competition Flash, France
-Queer Film Festival Palermo 2021, Italie
-Musee de la Chasse, Paris, septembre 2021
-The Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile, 2021
-Circuito- Santiago de Compostela, 2021 Spain
-Competition Festival du Cinema Nouveau de Montreal, Canada 2021
Un Bateau qui passe
16mm, 4 min, couleur, 2020
Chanson de Barbara Carlotti
Film réalisé, tourné et monté par Marie Losier
Production exécutive Tamara Films et Antre Peaux
Avec
Barbara Carlotti
Figurants
Boris Grisot
Simon Fravega
Jean-Pierre Petit
Léo Woo
Cheffe Décoratrice
Romane Edinger
1ère assistante décoratrice
Sarah Vigier
Stagiaires en décoration de École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges
Flora Jamar
Léo Woo
Anne Depoutot
Tatjana Komaroff
Stagiaire en lumière de l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Gand
Faust Smiatek
Cheffe Costumière
Élise Cribier-Delande
Cheffe Maquilleuse et Coiffeuse
Djenete Bouadjadj
Equipe Tamara Films
Carole Chassaing/ Productrice
Raquel Garcia/ Assistante mise en scène et production
Romane Edinger/ Chargée de production
Equipe Antre Peaux
Isabelle Carlier / Co directrice
Pénélope Yatropoulos / Chargée de production
Claire Guilloux / Chargée de production
Aurelien Merlet / Régisseur générale
Thomas Richoux / Régie de production
Anne Soizic / Régie accueil
Auteur : Dominique Marfisi
Compositeur(s) : Dominique Marfisi, François Mattei
Adaptation : Antoine Silvestri, Barbara Carlotti
Enregistré, mixé et masterisé au Labomatic Studios
Masterer : Dominique Blanc-Francard
Mixer : Bénédicte Schmitt
Producer (Co-) : Barbara Carlotti,Bénédicte Schmitt
Recorded by : Bénédicte Schmitt,Benoît Fleury
Label Elektra France, (P) 2020 Warner Music France
Remerciements
Gaëlle Donelian
Alice Neuville
Krystel Cosqueric
Antoine Réguillon
Jackie Raynal
David Legrand
Mike Texier
Emilie Pouzet
Un film de Marie Losier
, 2021, 16mm, couleur.
Musique composée et interprétée par Dorit Chrysler
Batterie/percussions par Yuval Lion
Mixage a Bernd Heinrauch Studio
Introducing: The Moog Claravox
Image et Montage de Marie Losier
Etalonnage Yannig Willmann
Production Tamara Films / Carole Chassaing
Assistante mise en scène et productrice associée Clara Alloing
En collaboration avec le CERN CMS Collider
Avec le soutien du CNC / Aide a la Video Musique
“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. Teaming up with Film Maker Marie Losier, “Electric Storm” was filmed (by Marie on 16mm) at the CMS collider cave of CERN in mid march.
It has a particular poignancy in that it while the shoot had been planned for years, the weekend that had been chosen turned out to be the weekend of the great world shutdown and everybody’s flights and trains (NY, Paris, Vienna) were being cancelled and they didn’t know if they would be stuck in Geneva far from their families, and yet they continued working solidly nevertheless.
France, 6 min - 16mm - 2020
Avec : Felix Kubin, Claire Doyon, Elina Löwensohn, Joana Preiss
Dialogue et conseil artistique Bertrand Mandico
Produit par Ecce Films, Mathilde Delaunay
Louis II de Bavière est pétrifié dans la glace depuis la nuit des temps. On le retrouve dans une forêt, par chance il est vivant! Trois sœurs sorcières tentent de le décongeler et de percer son mystère musical. Nous sommes propulsés avec eux dans un conte de fée coloré et surréaliste.
Festivals
-Côté Court, Pantin, 2020 - ART VIDEO - En ligne
-Projection à la Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 2020
-Festival International du Film Grolandais de Toulouse (FIFIGROT), 2020
-Jahorina Film Festival, Bosnie-Herzégovine, 2020 – Compétition Expérimental
-CURTOCIRCUÍTO - International Film Festival, Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, 2020 – Compétition officielle
-Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, 2020 - Compétition Internationale
-Festival du Film Court en Armagnac - Compétition
-Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, 2020 - Compétition
-Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Octobre 2020 -Compétition Internationale Court Métrage Fiction
-Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Suisse, 2020 - Compétition Internationale
-Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, 2020 - Compétition
-BRNO16 International Short Film Festival, République Tchèque, Décembre 2020 - Compétition Internationale
-Stuttgart Film Winter, 2021 - International Short Film Compétition
-London Short Film Festival, 2021 - Compétition Internationale
-TransCentury Update, UT CONNEWITZ, Leipzig, 2021
-Compétition nationale du 43e Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand - 2021
-BAFICI, Argentine, Mars 2021
-Lago Film Fest, Italie, 2021
-Seattle International Film Festival, 2021
-IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbonne 2021
-Santiago del Estero Film Festival, Argentine, 2021 - Short Film Competition
-Festival REGARD, Quebec- Canada, 2021
-Torino Underground Cinefest, Italy, 2021
-L'Étrange Festival 27ème édition - Compétition Courts , Paris, 2021
-Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2021
-Galician Freaky Film Festival (GFFF) 2021
-38th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany, 2021
Etats Unis, 5 min, color, 16mm, 2020
MoMA PS1, Performance Marie Losier & Felix Kubin 2018
Music Video by Marie Losier with Felix Kubin
Music composed and sung by Felix Kubin
With Sophie Cavoulacos, Tony Torn, Juliana & M.J Francis Kelly, Oleg and Dima Dubson, Guy Greenberg, Dorit & Eik Chrysler, Marianne Shaneen, Victoria Keddie, M.V Carbon, Bradley Eros, Sam, Angie & Anna Diiorio, Margarita Jimeno, Joel Schlemowitz, Rachael & Gabriel Guma Rene Abernathy, Felix Kubin, Amelie Garin Davet, Steve Dalachinsky.
When I returned to NYC for a retrospective of my films at MoMA, I was also invited to PS1 to create a performance for the SUNDAY SESSION with my dear friend Felix Kubin; the composer and singer from Hamburg, who was the subject of my last film Felix in Wonderland.
I do not perform so I proposed to PS1 to film a music video as a performance the way I usually do with all my dearest NY friends, on 16mm and this time with an audience watching us making the film live!
Felix composed a song for this event, Download Yourself.
The performance, film shoot, was a beautiful celebration of friendship, creativity, craziness and film making and NYC!.
USA, 2007/2018, 16 mm, black & white, color, sound, 5 min 47 s
Film portrait of my mentor, the painter Peter Hristoff, while teaching drawing at SVA, in NYC.
Peter teaches painting the way a filmmaker or theater director directs his actors and the class is his playground, his stage. The students are around the stage filled with models in hand made costumes, who dance, pause, create emotions, stage scenes that Peter invent. Peter’s whimsical world, and process of creation is what inspired me to become a painter, a filmmaker and embrace life with my playground.
16mm, 3 min, Color, sound, with Felix Kubin, 2019
Performance musicale de Felix Kubin de sa composition au piano, mais pas n'importe quel piano... un AIR PIANO !
16mm, color, 20 mn. With Fernando, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Joao Rui Guerra De Mata, Simon Fravega, Miguel Valverde, Davide Oberto...
Commissioned by Indielisboa.
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 skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.
2020:
Santa Curtas Festiva (Santa Cruz, Portugal)
2018:
Ampersand (Lisbonne, Portugal)
2017:
Frankfurt Mal Sehn cinema and SCHAUT! Showroom (Germany)
The film as a feature with all 4 shorts will travel in 2017 to Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Brasil.
2016:
Santiago do Chile (Chili, 8-14 dec.)
Montevideo (Uruguay, 11-14 Dec.)
Retrospective Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Paris-FR)
Morbid Anatomy Museum - Brooklyn (USA)
Annual First Look Festival - Museum of the Moving Image NY (USA)
Berlin International Film Festival - Forum Expanded (Germany)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong)
Next International Film Festival (Romania)
Les Visiteurs du Soir / Réseau d'Art Contemporain
de la Côte d'Azur (France)
Kinemathek Hamburg - Metropolis Kino (Germany)
Sicilia Queer Filmfest (Italy)
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland)
T-Mobile New Horizons (Poland)
Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico)
Curto Circuito International Film Festival (Spain)
Seville International Film Festival (Spain)
Kaoshiung International Film Festival (Taiwan)
Berlinale Spotlight (India)
13 min, color, 16mm. Directed, shot by Marie Losier
Editing Marie Losier and Valerie Massadian
Sound Mix by Clement Chassaing
Collaboration with Rania Attlieb
With La Dynasty Moreno, Cynthia, Esther and Rossi Moreno.
Three women/three sisters/three professional Luchadoras, part of the Dynasty Moreno: Rossy, Esther and Cynthia are competitive wrestlers on the ring. But they also bring lucha libre into life, wrestling with knives, pig heads, flowers and feathers! Bim, Bam, Boom!
Produced by CPH:DOX, a DOX LAB Film - Patricia Drati Ronde & Tine Fisher (Denmark). Also produced Cine Tonala (Mexico) and by Marie Losier (USA)
Shot on Video, color, 5 mn. With Peaches and Jesper Just.
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?
Shot on 16mm, color, 16 min, English, with Liz Lamere, Alan Vega et Dante Vega.
Produced by Marie Losier and Tamara Films
This intimate portrait depicts the moving and rebellious soul of groundbreaking visual artist and pioneer of minimalist electronic rock, Alan Vega, vocalist and composer for 1970s and 80s punk/post punk duo Suicide. Alan plays with the camera while loving, fighting and living with his family—Liz Lamere, his wife and collaborator, and their prodigal son Dante, young replica of Alan. Traces of joy, eccentricity, illumination, the rock-n-roll Alan Vega is still very alive, funny and rebellious!
Shot on 16mm, color, 3 min, with Marisol Limon.
Scopitone style this 16mm musical shot on the famous Billy Wilder’s Wansee beach in Berlin. New song by Marisol Limon from New York and Mexico, a mix of deep melancholy, mixed gender with much poetic humor and colors. From her album Autoportrait.
Shot on 16mm, 7min, color. With Chong Gon Byun
Commissioned by Crossing The Line (FIAF)
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.
Shot on 16mm, Color, 72 mn. With Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV...Produced by Marie Losier
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of groundbreaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project.
P-Orridge is revealed as an innate artist who inflects and illuminates every aspect of existence, high and low, exalted and humble, with a singular sensibility; Losier’s film captures the poignant paradoxes, the ecstasies and burdens, of the transformation of life into art.
- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Film Distributed by EPICENTRE FILMS (Paris-France)
Film Distributed by KINO ARSENAL (Berlin-Germany)
Film Distributed by ADOPT FILMS (NYC-USA)
Film Awards
GRAND PRIZE-Indilisboa(Portugal)
TEDDY Award (Berlin Film Festival-Forum)
CALIGARI Award (Berlin Film Festival-Forum)
PRIX LOUIS MARCORELLES& PRIX DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES -Cinema du Reel (France)
AUDIENCE Award-Bafici-Buenos Aires Film Festival (Argentina)
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT Award-Outfest Film Festival (USA-Los Angeles)
SANFIC-SPECIAL MENTION-International Competition (Chile)
AUDIENCE AWARD-Mention Speciale-FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA (Quebec)
Shot on 16mm, 3 min, B & W.
With April March and Julien Gasc.
Cet Air la is a famous french song from 1963, sung live by NY singer April March in acapela with Julien Gasc. The couple is singing while flying over a superimposed 16mm projection of a stop motion animation of a series of clouds, birds, bubbles, smoke machines and glitters…the song has the texture of a dream.
Part of Residency Unlimited Project
Shot on 16mm, 15min, color, screened on video.
With Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge and April March
Musical with music, musicians, muses and fishes.
On a giant ferry, two mermaids play violins to lure the fishwhen suddenly a giant fish lands on board, joined by thirty dancers and a great singer April March. A fish fight musical ensues.
Commissioned by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. for “LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World” (Berlin, 2009) /Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds
“What a brilliant explosion of brilliance! Brilliant colors! Brilliant music! Brilliant costumes! Brilliant casting! I shall cherish this masterpiece forever!” Guy Maddin- Nov. 2010.
Shot on super 8 & 16mm, Color, 6 min.
Music video Papal Breakdance by PTV3-Genesis P-Orridge
With Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and many friends.
A campy music video in the style of a scopitone from the early 1960s, with the wonderful cast of 10 boys in sexy red singlets and girls in red tutus, all dancing with joy with Genesis P-Orridge in a boxing ring…all the ingredients for a slap stick boxing match in music.
Exhibited in a scopitone machine at LUXE Gallery (2009-NYC) and Berlinale (Germany-2010), in POPISM 5 in Le Lieu Unique (2009-France) and at The Kunstverein Museum in Hamburg (2015-Germany)
Shot on 16mm, color, 27mins. With Tony Conrad, Lara Doyle, Joe Gibbons, Tony Oursler, Sebastien S D Santamaria.
Camera, Editing, mixing: Marie Losier
Music and Songs by Tony Conrad
This is a dream portrait of Tony Conrad, the experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. Violin player Tony Conrad was one of the pioneers of New York minimalismand worked in 1962 on Lamonte Young's "Dream Music" project with the likes of John Cale, Angus MacLise (both future Velvet Underground). Tony lived and worked with Jack Smith for many years and made the music for his famous film Flaming Creature.
In this portrait of Tony Conrad, we discover Tony playing in his studio with costumes and wigs, practicing his violin in his home town-Buffalo, cooking pickled films, performing at Tonics and The Whitney Biennial in NYC, recalling his first hand puppet performances with his mother, his first meeting with Jack Smith and his involvement with Flaming Creature...2 years of footage and stories and laughters to share.
Shot on 16mm, super 8, B & W, silent, 10 min.
Collaboration film Marie Losier and Guy Maddin.
Two sisters, five brothers, a doctor and two nurses and the miraculous birth of a pair of hands..but whose hands…“Marie, that shot of the hands coming out o’ your womb is a dilly!!! What an honour to be born of you! your son, Guy” (Guy Maddin)
Shot on 16mm, color, sound, 11 min.
A giant pot is ascending from the sky. Twenty winsome damsels are landing on planet earth, coming out of the pot filled with 280 pounds of spaguetti. A battle for sauce and survival ensues.
Shot on 16mm, b&w/color, sound, 16 min.
With Richard Foreman, Juliana Francis, Tom Ryder Smith and JaySmith.
“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 strolling down off San Juan Hill with a sigh, waving his handkerchief. Foreman plays himself, and the cast pantomimes his preoccupations. If “the cast and crew suffer alike,” it’s all for a good cause: the violent rebirth of the American theater, with Foreman as its midwife.
Shot on 16mm, color, sound, 6 min.
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. But when a swarm of flies interrupts their feast of chocolate-covered pretzels and cream-pies, the young ladies run amok.
Shot on 16mm, color, sound, 8 min. With George Kuchar.
“You always have to be careful, you always have to have the shower backward in order to see the water, which means you better watch out, or you might electrify or electrocute your stars. You know what I mean, by having the light falling into the tub” -GK
This is a dream-portrait of George Kuchar, traveling through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries. And then George joins Janet Leigh in the shower. Wearing a red raincoat and a shower cap, reading comic books and blowing bubbles, he laughingly describes his bathing rituals and the making of his film, Hold Me While I’m Naked.
Shot on 16mm, color/b&w, sound, 13 min.
With Mike Kuchar.“I don’t put myself into my movies because that would be too much - my pictures reflect my own feelings. So hopefully it’s entertaining. Otherwise I can’t bear looking at them, ha ha!”-MK. In this dream-portrait of Mike Kuchar, he floats through his memories as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the imaginary creatures surrounding him, and recalls the creatures of his own imagination.
Shot on 16mm, b&w, sound, 3 min.
For 3 months, every day at 1pm I would hide in the copy room at work and lay my face on the xerox machine. The result: an animation of my face eating my fist. -ML
Shot on video, b&w 8 min. With Marie Losier
The story of Jean 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 into the 1928 film as God’s greatest lover and France’s most cherished martyr. A funny tragedy.
Video, color, 5 min. With Marie Losier, Max Von Sydow, Bibi Anderson
“Do you have any photos of your wife in the nude” “Oh, I’m sorry, David to disappoint you. You will have to content yourself with my orchid”
In 1971, Ingmar Bergman made his only American film, The Touch, starring ensemble regulars Max Von Sydow and Bibi Anderson, along with early 70s everyman Elliott Gould. In 2001, Marie Losier decided to recast herself in Gould’s role, breathing new life into Bergman’s most awkward, ill-conceived and dubious filmic endeavor.