Mexico/Denmark/USA, experimental documentary/portrait film, 13min, 2014. Dir: Marie Losier. Western Japan Premiere!
Three women/three sisters/three professional Luchadoras, part of the Moreno Dynasty: Rossy, Esther and Cynthia are competitive wrestlers in the ring. But they also bring lucha libre into life, wrestling with knives, pig heads, flowers and feathers! Bim, Bam, Boom! Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award. The director Marie Losier’s portrait films have been featured at Rotterdam, Tribeca, Tate Modern, MoMa, Centre Pompidou, Whitney Biennial, among others.
Bio:
Marie Losier, born in France, is a filmmaker and curator who’s worked in New York City for 20 years. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals. She studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France) and Fine Arts at Hunter College in New York City. She has made a number of film portraits on avant- garde directors, musicians and composers, such as George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Genesis P Orridge, Alan Vega and Felix Kubin. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists. Losier’s films are regularly shown at prestigious art and film festivals and museums, such as the Berlinale, Rotterdam Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival, Tate Modern, MOMA, Palais de Tokyo, Centre George Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, N.Y.C).
Her first feature film was the portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his/her partner Lady Jaye. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2011, and won the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. She also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliotheques at Cinema du Reel, and many more. The film was released in France, Canada, Mexico, Germany and in the USA. Losier was awarded the prestigious 2013/2014 DAAD Residency Award in Berlin to work on her new feature film Peaches Goes Bananas!, based on Canadian musician-performer Peaches. She received the Guggenheim Award to work on Cassandro, The Exotico, a portrait of the celebrated Mexican wrestler. She is currently on residency at the Cité des Arts, in Paris in pre-production for her new feature on Cassandro, The Exotico, as well as a multi facets film (installation, film and performance) on the German composer and musician, Felix Kubin (Felix Kubin, Falling Still).
Works-in-Progress:
Feature Films
– Cassandro, the Exotico (documentary, produced by Tamara Films and House on Fire)
– Peaches goes Bananas (fiction, produced by Tamara Films and House on Fire)
– Felix Kubin, Falling Still (docu fiction and installation, produced by Red Shoes and Bandits-Mages)
Series of short portraits for tv on actors from theater to cinema
Portraits on Pascal Greggory, Fanny Ardant, Denis Lavant and Bulles Ogier
Short Film portraits on Franco Brocani and Ontani Luigi
Filmmography:
L’Oiseau de la Nuit (2015), 16mm, 20 min, color, with Deborah Kristal, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Joao Rui Guerra DaMata… Omnibus Film, HERE LISBON, produced by Indielisboa with Denis Cote, Gabriel Abrantes and Dominga Sotomaya
L’échappée Vive (2015), video, 24 min, color, co-directed with Catherine Libert, with Noël Dola & Ben Vaultier
Peaches and Jesper are on a boat, who stays afloat ? (2014), video, color, 5 min, with Peaches and Jesper Just / Venice Biennial
Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (2014), 16mm, color, 13 min, with The Moreno Sisters
Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (2013), 16mm, color, 13 min, with Alan Vega, Liz Lamere and Dante Vega
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), 16mm, color, sound, 72 min, with Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye, Psychic TV…
Buyn, Objet Trouvé (2012), 16mm, color, 6min, with Byun Chong and Kiya Chong
Cet Air Là (2010), 16 mm, B&W, 3 min, with April March and Julien Gasc
Slap the Gondola! (2010), 16 mm, 15min, music April March, with April March, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge
Papal Broken Dance (2009), super 8 & 16 mm, 6 min, music PTV3, with Genesis P-Orridge
Tony Conrad, Dreaminimalist (2008), 16mm, sound, 27 min, with Tony Conrad
Jaye Lady Jaye (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Lady Jaye and PTV3
Snow Beard (2008), 16 mm, sound, 3 min, with Mike Kuchar
Manuelle Labor (2007), 16 mm, super 8, sound, 10 min, collaboration with Guy Maddin
Flying Saucey! (2006), 16 mm, color, sound, 9 min, with Flux Factory
The Ontological Cowboy (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 15min, with Richard Foreman
Eat Your Makeup! (2005), 16 mm, color, sound, 6 min, with George Kuchar
Electrocute Your Stars (2004), 16 mm, color, sound, 10 min, with George Kuchar
Bird, Bath, and Beyond (2003), 16 mm, color, sound, 13 min, with Mike Kuchar
Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003), 16 mm, B&W, silent, 3 min
Sanitarium Cinema (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min
The Passion of Joan Arc (2002), video, color, sound, 9 min
Broken Blossoms (2002), video, color, sound, 10 min
Loula Meets Charlie (2002), video performance at the Ontological Theater, 7 min
The Touch Retouched (2002), video, color, sound, 6 min