The Residents: Barking in the Dark

Marie Losier / France / 2025 / 42 min

Hidden behind their giant, bloodshot eyeball helmet, San Francisco cult band The Residents have mystified the world with their boundlessly experimental music and art for more than 50 years. Who are they? No one knows, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make a movie in their spirit, which is what French artist Marie Losier has done. Losier seeks out Homer Flynn, who in the role of president of The Cryptic Corporation manages The Residents’ vast archive from his garage and who can tell you everything you need to know about the group – except who they are behind the masks, of course. The band members themselves, however, wield both hat and cane in front of Losier’s spinning 16mm camera in a film that is, above all, a celebration of the freedom of the imagination.