A celluloid portrait-in-progress
is transformed into a riotous playground for cinema’s past in Outtakes, beloved underground
filmmaker Marie Losier’s endlessly creative, hands-on installation at the Lower East
Side’s Luxe Gallery devoted to industrial
rock pioneer Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle).
Constructed almost entirely of unused clips and sound bites from Losier’s upcoming feature, The
Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Outtakes puts the forlorn footage to work in the
service of a whimsical retelling of film history—one in which the transformative Genesis is
its unlikely star.
Peephole boxes, antique lenses, a campy music video machine from the early 60s (called a
Scopitone)—each historical device brings film off the big screen and down to eye level, providing
the audience with an incredibly intimate encounter with their cinematic and musical past.
Presented at the Luxe Gallery in conjunction with Crossing the Line, Outtakes defamiliarizes
and recontextualizes its way to an astounding personal tribute—all the while returning the
obsolete and abandoned to center stage.
Special thanks to collaborators Nathalie Angles, Stephan Stoyanov, Jean Barberis, Sebastien
Santamaria, and Bernard Yenelouis.
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