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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Rose Lowder

Artist, filmmaker and teacher Rose LOWDER (1941, Peru) studied painting and sculpture at The Art Center and the School of Fine Arts in Lima, and also took courses in London at Regent Street Polytechnic and Chelsea School of Art. She’s worked as a painter, sculptor and film editor. Lowder concentrated on research and experimental filmmaking after 1977, co-founding the Experimental Film Archives of Avignon with Alain-Alcide Sudre, a publicly-funded 16mm film and printed document study collection. She creates her films frame by frame using her 16mm Bolex camera. Lowder also worked as an assistant professor at Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris between 1996 and 2005, where she gave classes in film practice, theory, history and aesthetics.

Filmography

(all short) Roulement, rouerie, aubage (1978), Parcelle (1979), Couleurs mécaniques/Mechanical Colours (1979), Rue des Teinturiers (1979), Champ Provençal/Provençal Field (1979), Retour d’un repère/Recurrence (1979), Rapprochements (1979), Certaines observations (1979), Retour d’un repère composé/Composed Recurrence (1981), Les tournesols/Sunflowers (1982), Les tournesols colorés/Coloured Sunflowers (1983), Scènes de la vie française: Arles (1985), Scènes de la vie française: Paris (1986), Scènes de la vie française: La Ciotat (1986), Scènes de la vie française: Avignon (1986), Impromptu (1989), Quiproquo (1992), Bouquets 1-10 (1994-1995), Trace (1996), Two Pictures (1999, co-dir), Les Coquelicots/Poppies (2000), Bouquets 21-24 (2001), Voiliers et coquelicots/Poppies and Sailboats (2001), Bouquets 25, 26-27 (2002-2003), L’invitation au voyage (2003), Bouquets 28-30 (2004-2005), Bouquets 21-30 (2001-2005), Habitat, Batracien/Batrachian (2006), Côté jardin (2007), Bouquets 11-20 (2005-2010), Fleur de sel/Sea Salt Flower (2010), Jardin du soleil/Sun Garden (2010), Jardins du Marais/Marsh Garden (2010), Rien d’extraordinaire/Nothing Special (2010), Jardin du sel/Salt Garden (2012), Sources (2012)

Rose Lowder at IFFR

  • Parcelle

    Shot frame-by-frame and edited in-camera to obfuscate the real image and reveal the imaginary.

    • Focus: arc

  • Bouquet 25

    A summer bouquet with rare flowers from mountain pastures around Cantal.

    • main programme short

  • Bouquets 26-27

    Bouquets 26 and 27 are part of a series of one minute films, structured visually in the camera during filming covering a variety of subjects. Bouquet 26 was filmed in the middle of the animals in a small farm, La Terra de Mezo, perched on hillside terraces of Liguara, Italy. Bouquet 27 was shot in […]

    • Short!

  • Quiproquo

    For Quiproquo Rose Lowder clearly drew on the idiom of experimental cinema. The film +!+ without text, with modern music +!+ comprises original and idiosyncratic observations of natural and industrial landscapes. You could see it as a kind of landscape art in motion. She looks at an industrial landscape which is traditionally regarded as ugly […]

    • main programme

  • Jardin du sel

    Enchanting golden glow across the salt fields with the sun low on the horizon. Carefully shot 16mm film by influential French experimental filmmaker.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Jardin du soleil

    Poetic 16mm precision. Footage of nature and sunlight intermingled by repeatedly running the film through the camera.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Rien d’extraordinaire

    Intimate, poetic film diary in Rose Lowder’s signature style. She ran the film through the camera multiple times whilst recording a mountain village.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Triste

    The process of perfecting Dorsky’s cinematic form started with Triste. A key film in his oeuvre.

    • main programme short