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 op IFFR
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The Way Out
Kosten Koper, Luke Fowler | 32' | United Kingdom | -
The Way Out is a Confucius-quoting flotsam of found footage and lost thoughts. -
The Nine Monads of David Bell
Luke Fowler | United Kingdom | None
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… -
Bogman Palmjaguar
Luke Fowler | 30' | United Kingdom | International premiere
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. -
What You See Is Where You’re At
Luke Fowler | 28' | United Kingdom | None
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 -
Mum’s Cards
Luke Fowler | 9' | United Kingdom | European premiere
Hand-written index cards, filmed on 35mm: the key to stories where personal history is linked to a love of sociology. -
Houses (for Margaret)
Luke Fowler | 5' | United Kingdom | European premiere
Loving, 16mm ode to Scottish poet and avant-garde filmmaker Margaret Tait. Fowler circles her home on Orkney, zooming in on her notebooks. -
Depositions
Luke Fowler | 25' | United Kingdom | None
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 -
To the Editor of Amateur Photographer
Luke Fowler, Mark Fell | 68' | United Kingdom | International premiere
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 -
A Grammar for Listening (Parts 1-3)
Luke Fowler | 58' | United Kingdom | International premiere
With this arrestingly powerful aural and visual feast, Luke Fowler – in collaboration with sound artists Lee Patterson, Eric La Casa and Toshiya Tsuno -
After School Special
Corin Sworn | 20' | Canada | None
A compact, semi-abstract and delirious study of the clichéd teen rebel genre.