Marie Losier Shorts Program 2

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Slap The Gondola! 2010. USA/Germany. Directed by Marie Losier. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Bernard Yenelouis

This eclectic selection of recent titles explores Losier’s rich range of subjects and collaborations. Created for a Berlin festival celebrating Jack Smith, Slap the Gondola! is a prime example of Losier’s performance-based films in the style of Smith’s underground camp. Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge appear as mermaids who lure a cast of dozens to the deck of a freighter docked in Brooklyn. Masterful choreography and handmade costumes, hats, and props evoke vintage chorus girls, while shifts in film speed, musical genres, and tone bring tragicomedy to the polymorphous bacchanal. The program also features a passage filmed in Chong Gon Byun’s studio, where Losier’s stop-motion animation creates an alternate world from the Korean artist’s menagerie of found objects; a study of motion and pluck centered on a trio of sister luchadoras; and O pássaro da noite, a heady fairytale starring Portuguese club performer Fernando, whose cult status is opened up as a passageway to larger legends and fantasy. This latter’s sensuality and formal precision recall the films of João Pedro Rodrigues, who appears alongside a cast of flaming creatures on the banks of the Tagus River. Program approx. 65 min.

Hellooo George from Wherever You Are! A Wink to the Sky. 2011. USA. Directed by Marie Losier. With Tony Conrad, Bradley Eros, Andy Lampert, Genesis P-Orridge. Commissioned by Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal. 16mm transferred to video. 2 min.

Snow Beard. 2008. USA. Directed by Marie Losier. With Mike Kuchar. 16mm transferred to video. 3 min.

Slap the Gondola! 2010. USA/Germany. Directed by Marie Losier. With Tony Conrad, Genesis P-Orridge, April March. Music by Bertrand Burgalat, April March. Commissioned by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. 16mm transferred to video. 15 min.

Byun, objet trouvé. 2012. USA. Directed by Marie Losier. With Chong Gon Byun. Commissioned by French Institute Alliance Française. 16mm transferred to video. 7 min.

Bim Bam Boom, las Luchas Morenas! 2014. USA/Denmark/Mexico. Directed by Marie Losier. In collaboration with Rania Attlieb. With Rossy, Esther, Cynthia Moreno. 16mm transferred to video. 13 min.

O pássaro da noite (L’Oiseau de la nuit). 2016. Portugal/France. Directed by Marie Losier. With Fernando Santos aka Deborah Krystal, Cindy Scrash, Alda Cabrita, João Pedro Rodrigues. 16mm transferred to video. 20 min.

Waltz Me Trust Me. 2016. France. Directed by Marie Losier. With Felix Kubin. 16mm transferred to video. 5 min.

This film accompanies Marie Losier: Just a Million Dreams.

Past events

Wed, Nov 7, 2018, 7:00 p.m.

Education Center, Mezzanine, Theater 3

The Celeste Bartos Theater
Sat, Nov 3, 2018, 4:00 p.m.

Introduced by April March

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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