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Luke Fowler

As an artist, Luke FOWLER (1978, Scotland) has been exhibited widely in Europe. His work investigates the conventions of biographical film and documentary. He was the recipient of the first Jarman Award in 2008 and was nominated for the 2012 Turner Prize for All Divided Selves (2011), a documentary exploring the life and work of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing. He was an Artist in Focus at the 2016 Courtisane Festival. In 2019, his short film Mum’s Cards won the Scottish Short Film Award.

Filmografie

What You See Is Where You’re At (2001, short), The Way Out (2003, short), Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2006, short), Bogman Palmjaguar (2007, short), Paddington Collaboration (2007, short), Achterhaven Splinters (2008, short), An Abbeyview Film (2008, short), Another Day of Gravity (2008, short), George (2008, short), A Grammar for Listening (parts 1-3) (2009, short), Anna (2009, short), David (2009, short), Helen (2009, short), Lester (2009, short), All Divided Selves (2012, doc), The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluted Followers of Joanna Southcott (2012), Depositions (2014, short), To the Editor of Amateur Photographer (2014, doc, co-dir), Depositions (short), For Christian (2016, short), Country Grammar (2017, short), Electro-Pythagoras (2017, short), ENCEINDRE (2018, short), Mum’s Cards (2019, short), Cézanne (2019, short), Houses (for Margaret) (2019, short)

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Luke Fowler at IFFR

  • The Way Out

    The Way Out is a Confucius-quoting flotsam of found footage and lost thoughts.

    • DVDrome (Witte de With)

  • The Nine Monads of David Bell

    Luke Fowler’s installation The Nine Monads of David Bell (2007) departs from his film What You See Is Where You’re At (2001), a portrait of the Kingsley Hall community (Philadelphia Association 1965-1969). This beacon of the anti-psychiatry movement provided a counter model to the mental institution, breaking down notions of treatment and the doctor/patient hierarchy.Focusing […]

    • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals

  • Bogman Palmjaguar

    A bizarre and candid biopic of an ex-patient of the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, who now lives a hermit’s life in the Scottish Highlands.

    • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals

  • What You See Is Where You’re At

    A disturbing collage of ‘found’ and archived sound and film recordings about the anti-psychiatry of R.D. Laing, re-appraising its relevance to contemp

    • Exploding Cinema: Free Radicals

  • Mum’s Cards

    Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology.

    • Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

  • Houses (for Margaret)

    Loving, 16mm ode to Scottish poet and avant-garde filmmaker Margaret Tait. Fowler circles her home on Orkney, zooming in on her notebooks.

    • Bright Future Short

  • Depositions

    Past thoughts on collectivity and the future are ruminated upon in this collage film made up of archival footage from Scottish television. See also To

    • As Long As It Takes: Short

  • To the Editor of Amateur Photographer

    Impressionist journey through the archive of the Leeds Pavilion, which in the 1980s started out as a feminist photo studio. Former members, male and f

    • Signals: What the F?!

  • A Grammar for Listening (Parts 1-3)

    With this arrestingly powerful aural and visual feast, Luke Fowler – in collaboration with sound artists Lee Patterson, Eric La Casa and Toshiya Tsuno

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • After School Special

    A compact, semi-abstract and delirious study of the clichéd teen rebel genre.

    • Spectrum Shorts