Marie Losier

Marie Losier (born 1972) is a French-born filmmaker and curator who has been active in New York City since the mid-1990s. Her "colorful, caustic, visionary and slightly crazy" 16mm film portraits of "somewhat marginal characters"Marie Losier at the Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard have been shown at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals, and have been noted for their dreamlike and unconventional style.
Losier's first feature film, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (a portrait of industrial musician Genesis P-Orridge and their partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011, winning the Caligary and the Teddy Awards. The film also won the Grand Prize at Indielisboa, the Prix Louis Marcorelles and the Prix des Bibliothèques at Cinema du Reel, among other awards.
==History with The Residents==
Prior to the announcement that she was directing a film based on The Residents in January 2023, Marie Losier's only connection to the group was a photo session she had orchestrated in New York City in 2020 with members of The Residents' visual art team, Homer Flynn and Leigh Barbier, alongside Constance DeJong and Tony Oursler.
===Barking in the Dark===
On January 27th 2023 it was announced that Losier had that day begun filming a documentary film about The Residents; the announcement post made by Mathild Delaunay stated that "The filming will take us from Bourges to Brussels, from Paris to Essen, and to San Francisco throughout 2023;" all locations visited on The Residents' 2023 Faceless Forever tour; the post was also accompanied by a photo of The Residents in their Faceless Forever costumes.
In June 2023, production stills from the movie featuring newly built Mr. Green, Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue eyeball masks began appearing through Instagram posts made by the cast and crew of the film (@Fluorescentpool, @itsleoski, @raquel__wesh, @barberousse_films). Each of these posts credited the actors as Paula Rodríguez Polanco as Mr. Green, Eléonore Berrubé as Mr. Brown, François Yves Octave Marcel as Mr. Blue and Marlène Saldana.https://www.instagram.com/p/CtwscmYL8Jo/ 
The "works in progress" page of Losier's website features a poster and description of the film, under the working title Behind The Mask. The description says that the film will be based on the "lives between myth and reality," and that it will "flirt with scenes from their daily life, sometimes imagined, sometimes dreamed, and always taking us to a dimension as crazy as The Residents." It also states that "the fiction begins with a ceremony to bring Fox back to life."http://marielosier.com/works-in-progress/behind-the-mask
The film, retitled Barking in the Dark, premiered on February 1st 2025 at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
==Filmography==
===Feature-length films=== 
*The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011)
*Cassandro, the Exotico! (2018)
* Felix In Wonderland! (2019)
===Short films===
*The Touch Retouched (2002)
*Loula Meets Charlie (2002)
*Broken Blossoms (2002)
* The Passion of Joan Arc (2002)
*Sanitarium Cinema (2002)
* Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine (2003)
*Bird, Bath and Beyond (2003)
*Electrocute Your Stars (2004)
*Eat My Makeup! (2005)
*The Ontological Cowboy (2005)
*Flying Saucey! (2006)
* Manuelle Labor (2007)
*Snow Beard (2008)
*Jaye Lady Jaye (2008)
*Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist (2008)
*Papa! Broken Dance (2009)
*Slap the Gondola! (2010)
*Cet Air Là (2010)
* In Homage to George and Mike Kuchar (2011)
*Byun, Objet Trouvé (2012)
*Alan Vega, Just a Million Dreams (2013)
*Bim, Bam, Boom, Las Luchas Morenas! (2014)
*Peaches and Jesper are on a boat, who stays afloat? (2014)
*L’échappée Vive (2015)
*Here in Lisbon (2015) (segment "L'Oiseau de la Nuit")
*Masha Natasha (2015) with Fred Burle, Janin Halisch, and Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
*Images of a Work #22: Infinite Now (2017)
* Draw Me Now (2018)
*Which is Witch? (2020)
*Download Yourself (2020)
*Electric Storm, 100 Years of Theremin (2020)
*Taxidermisez-moi (2021)
*Barking in the Dark (2025)
==External links and references ==
*Official website
*Marie Losier at Wikipedia
*Marie Losier at IMDb
*Barking in the Dark at Rotterdam International Film Festival
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