Multidisciplinary French artist Marie Losier has been based in New York for many years. Despite being made up almost entirely of short pieces, her oeuvre has been highly consistent, and she displays a contagious spiritual vitality in her reconquest of the spirit of American underground cinema. She has worked in collaboration with the Kuchar brothers, Guy Maddin, the avant-garde musician Tony Conrad and the experimental playwright and film-maker Richard Foreman. The unmistakeable style of her portraits of some of these masters –which are also self-portraits of Losier herself– escape the merely hagiographic to reveal the intimacy of their subjects, but despite the rigor of her work she never loses her sense of humour. These film portraits show Losier's insight in recording crucial gestures and nuances to defining a common unifying factor: a conception of the audio-visual which seeks to break free from the confines of the conventional narrative, often leading to a real sense of subversion and/or delirium.

However, her work –whose breadth is the result of her use (transformation and reinvention) of all the media and elements available to her– extends far beyond her perceptible audiovisual influences. Her projects have centred on key figures from musical (contra)culture, such as Alan Vega (vocalist with Suicide) and Genesis P-Orridge (founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV).