Cast/Crew/Support

Marie Losier is the most effervescent and psychologically accurate portrait artist working in film today. Her films wriggle with the energy and sweetness of a broken barrel full o’ sugar worms!!!!
No one makes pictures like Marie, Edith Sitwell’s inner Tinkerbell !!!!!!!

–Guy Maddin-2008

Marie Losier’s movies are as sweet and sassy as her name and well worth a gander or goose by all off beat cineastes. So beat off to a different drum and marvel at the wad of wonders that only a French woman could generate. Take a trip down a sprocketed spiral of celluloid strips into a glory hole of impressive dimensions. What pops through will surely enlarge with persistent, ocular manipulations.

–George Kuchar-2008

Marie Losier, born in France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals.   She studied literature at the University of Nanterre (France) and Fine Art in New York City.  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 films are regularly shown at prestigious art and film festivals and museums, such as The Tate Modern, the Whitney Biennial, PS1, MOMA, The Berlin Film Festival, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Tribeca Film Festival, The Cinemathèque Francaise and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris… She was also included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, NY) .

She has started her first feature film, 7 years ago, a portrait of on the musical genius Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and his love and collaborator Lady Jaye.  The work in progress was presented in 2009 at The Centre George Pompidou to open “Hors Pistes” as well as at the Cinemathèque Francaise in Paris in September. The finished film opened at the BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL in February 2011 in the FORUM and won 2 awards for best documentary, The Teddy and the Caligary Awards. Since then it has been showing in every festivals around the world and will be released in the theater in Octobre  2011 in Europe and in February 2012 in the USA.

She lives and works in New York where she is film curator at the Alliance Française since 2000, where she presents a weekly film series.   She has hosted many notable directors and artists, including Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, and Jeanne Moreau.

She also programmed experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and Ocularis and today programs and bring experimental films series in Europe and all over in the States.

A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Marc is a filmmaker and editor living in Brooklyn, NY.  His previous credits include THE PAINTER SAM FRANCIS, a documentary that played internationally at festivals and museums including the Tate Modern in London and the Louvre in Paris, and the narrative PUTTY HILL, a multiple festival award winner that will be released theatrically in the spring of 2011.

Ryan O’Toole is a filmmaker and musician who lives in Long Island City. Ryan O’Toole was raised in Phoenix, AZ.  He is a professional film editor, filmmaker and musician.  Ryan holds an MFA in film editing from the American Film Institute and has extensive experience and expertise working with digital video and traditional film environments.

Charlotte Mangin (story producer for The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye) has been a documentary filmmaker for over ten years.  She spent five years on the production staff of National Geographic Television, working on stories about illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border, public health issues in Nepal, Colombia’s drug wars, and hurricane devastation in Florida, among others.  Most recently, Charlotte spent five years with the PBS series Wide Angle, reporting on international issues such as women’s rights in Morocco, legal reform in China, hunger in Ethiopia, and political turmoil in Haiti.  She directed, produced and edited her own independent documentary project about street children in Tangier which premiered on PBS in 2007.  Born in Paris, France, Charlotte attended Amherst College, followed by a Masters from Harvard University in East Asian Studies.

A Minnesota native and graduate of Boston University’s School of Management, Steve Holmgren is a New York City-based Producer and Programmer.  He recently produced Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill, and is currently working with Joseph Cahill on his project The Night Fisherman. He is also the programmer at the nonprofit documentary arts space UnionDocs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Steve also has experience in film sales, primarily with documentaries at Cactus Three, and started off working in film in production at HDN et Films.  He also works with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Sound Unseen.