FELIX IN WONDERLAND
France | 2019 | 50 min | col. | English, German
“I believe in dissonance.” This joyful assertion of eccentricity by avant-garde electronic music composer Felix Kubin is found in Marie Losier’s third feature documentary, made in 2019. The encounter of Losier with Kubin is like in a match made in heaven in which the ordinary is reinvented as extraordinary, and the function of all objects, even the most mundane, is reimagined in artistic terms. In Kubin’s Wonderland, then, a composition in honour of Yuri Gagarin can coexist alongside poems inspired by the string theory, recordings of dogs biting microphones, motherly voices coming from closed fridges, or underwater screams. A narcissist since he was a baby – see the peculiar archival footage – Kubin is not one to shy away from the camera. His inexhaustible and childish enthusiasm enables the filmmaker to create one of her most emblematic and humorous works, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and went on to show in numerous other international festivals. (E.S.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 07 Nov 2025
- Time: 12:30
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Marie Losier
Marie Losier was born in France in 1972. She is a filmmaker and curator and has exhibited her films and videos in museums, galleries, biennials, and festivals. Losier studied literature at the University of Nanterre and fine arts at Hunter College, City University of New York. She has made numerous film portraits of avant-garde filmmakers, musicians, and composers, including The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Cassandro The Exotico!, Felix in Wonderland, and Peaches Goes Bananas. In 2025, she presented Barking in the Dark, about the cult San Francisco band The Residents, at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
