The Cinema of Marie Losier

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Deeply marked by her personal relationships with friends and admired artists of the US cinema, musical and artistic underground, Marie Losier’s cinema is based on a portrayal of the everyday life of the least everyday people possible. Her films feature figures such as Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, George Kuchar and Peaches, with whom Losier spends time, sometimes over decades, to get close and bring us closer with her Bolex camera to a stark, profound intimacy that often contrasts with her performative and eccentric nature.

Eat My Makeup (2010) is a surrealist short in which Losier meets up with George Kuchar, Jason Livingston and Paul Shepard to eat cream pies and swat flies on the roof of a Long Island warehouse. Electrocute Your Stars (2004) is a dream portrait of George Kuchar, Losier’s friend and role model, who travels through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries. It is a bespoke piece in homage to the filmmaker, a paradigm figure in the New York underground of the sixties.

Peaches Goes Bananas (2024) is the product of 17 years of friendship between Losier and the protagonist of the film, Peaches, who met by chance while the former was beginning to make her film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jane (2011). Losier has filmed Peaches in concert in Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Brussels and also accompanied her in private and family moments that, without much premeditation, end up perfectly complementing the glamour and eccentricity of her shows in the film.

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