Barking in the Dark

Marie Losier approaches the mystery of the Residents without seeking to solve it. Since the 1970s, this American collective has been moving masked behind its famous giant eye-shaped heads, cultivating anonymity, absurd humor, and radical musical experiments. Rather than an explanatory documentary, the filmmaker composes a free drift in this singular universe. Guided by Homer Flynn, their manager and guardian of the group's mythology, she searches archives, memories, rare images, and fragments of stories. Faithful to her artisanal and playful cinema, shot on film, Losier transforms this exploration into a film that is both DIY, tender, and mischievous. "Barking in the Dark" then becomes less the definitive portrait of a group than the crossing of an underground legend — a celebration of strangeness, artistic freedom, and the pleasure of remaining elusive.