Losier was born in France in 1972, and lives in New York City where she is a filmmaker and curator at the French Institute Alliance Francaise. She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.

Her newest project and first feature film, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, is a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his/her partner Lady Jaye. The film premiered at the FORUM at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and won two awards: the Caligary Award and the Teddy. This feature will be screened as part of her lecture in February 5.

She has exhibited at MoMA, the Whitney Biennial, PS1, La Cinematheque Francaise, La Fondation Cartier, the Tate Modern and at many festivals and venues including the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Tribeca Film Festival, the Lincoln Center, Basel Art Fair, the Copenhagen Film Festival and the Harvard Film Archive. She has served as juror for many festivals, notably at BAFICI/the Buenos Aires Festival of International Cinema where she was the subject of a full retrospective, at the FID Marseille in France and the Festival Du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.

Tuesday, February 5, 12:30 pm
Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Image: Marie Losier, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (still), 2011.