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Electrocute Your Stars

Marie Losier

2004 00:08:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3BetacamSP video
Tags:
Artist Portraits, Humor

Description

"You always have to be careful. You always have to have the shower backward in order to see the water, which means you better watch out, or you might electrify, or electrocute your stars. You know what I mean, by having the light falling into the tub."

--George Kuchar

This is a dream-portrait of George Kuchar, traveling through snow confetti, strobe flashes and artificial wind as he describes his weather diaries. And then George joins Janet Leigh in the shower. Wearing a red raincoat and a shower cap, reading comic books and blowing bubbles, he laughingly describes his bathing rituals and the making of his film, Hold Me While I'm Naked.

About Marie Losier

Marie Losier is a filmmaker and curator.  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 Biennnial, PS1, MoMA, the Berlin Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Tribeca Film Festival, the Cinematheque Francaise, and the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.  She was also included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum, NY).

She lives and works in New York City, where she has been film curator at the Alliance Francaise since 2000, and presents a weekly film series.