Marie Losier

Marie Loiser photographed with three Residents in July of 2023

**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" 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 of 2023, Loiser's only connection to The Residents was a New Yorkc City based photo session she had orchestrated with members of The Residents' visual art team, Homer Flynn and Leigh Barbier alongside Constance DeJong and Tony Oursler in 2020.

### *Behind The Mask*

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 of 2023, production stills from the movie featuring newly built Mr. Green, Mr. Bown and Mr. Blue 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.

The 'works in progress' page of Marie Losier's website features a poster and description of the film, titled '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."

## 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)

## External links and references

* Official website
* Marie Losier at Wikipedia
* Marie Losier at IMDb

1. ↑ Marie Losier at the Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CtwscmYL8Jo/
3. ↑ http://marielosier.com/works-in-progress/behind-the-mask