Marie Losier

Marie Losier (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, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega, Guy Maddin, Peter Hristoff, Peaches, Felix Kubin and The Residents. 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, the Mostra, 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 - Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris in 2019.