Movies: Rose Lowder

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

Bouquets 1-10 is Lowder’s first collection in an ongoing series of one minute episodes, each composed of footage shot around a general geographic location that has been alternately woven, frame by frame, into a single film reel and connected through ...

Fugitive images of the northwestern city of France....

The title of “Impromptu” reflects both its creating process and the trait of life taking an unexpected course. This film intertwines time and space by being filmed frame on frame, in surprising locations, during a surprising time… but exactly this wa...

BOUQUETS 21-30 is a part of the ecological BOUQUETS series, consisting of one-minute films composed in the camera by weaving the characteristics of different environments with the activities there at the time. The filming basically entails using the ...

Looping carnival rides slow, stutter, and stop in the first film of Lowder's series disrupting the flow of time in quotidian French life....

Footage of public spaces around Avignon, shown in alternating frames captured at different times....

Footage of beachgoers and boats in harbor, shown in alternating frames taken at different times and shown with different tints....

A quick view of three remarkable organic gardens: Le Tomple, Le jardin du Mas d’Abri in the department of Gard and Le jardin des Sambucs in the department of Hérault. The film goes over their general layout along pathways amongst the vegetation, pond...

This is the first little film dedicated to yann beauvais that, because of the appearance of a hair from top to bottom of all the images, could not be shown in the Brazilian exhibition in Recife celebrating his 40 years of activity....

Reel 1 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

"Turbulence was filmed in the medieval town of Alet les Bains [...] In the middle of the peaceful city, with a warm and relaxing climate, known for its thermal baths, one can see [...] a small waterfall, the images of which, as well as the title of t...

With this film I wanted to pay homage to Yann Beauvais for his having, on top of his own work as an artist, against all odds, lack of funds or recognition concerning the field in question, made an important contribution to make known, as much by his ...

The latest in an ongoing series of portraits including inventors Maurice Seddon and Hugh de la Cruz. Here, filmmaker Rose Lowder prepares a macrobiotic meal in her tiny flat in Paris in October 2005. As Rose describes what she is cooking and why, we ...

Quiproquo is a dialogue on the balance to be found between nature and social-industrial technology. As the film refers to the economy of the means involved in relation to what is expressed, it is both a reflection on the potentialities of the medium ...

Sources originated from Thomas the Gardener’s wish to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his making vegetable pâté. Leaving urban life behind him in order to renew a relationship with the land, Thomas started up an organic garden in the beautiful area...

BOUQUETS 31-40 continues, like the previous Bouquets, to explore different places, which for various reasons, are ecological. For 31-40 they are in France, in Ardèche, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Tarn and Vaucluse and also in Piemont, Italy. ...

In this film Lowder moves away from the notion of a work based on a preconceived filming procedure, adjusting the visual characteristics of the image in order to approach the temporal dimension of a pond full of frogs. In front of creatures that tend...

Little is necessary for everything to appear differently. The date, the hour, the weather, the space's layout, one's glance or presence of mind . . . can make everything change. The boats sail out of the Vieux port in Marseille to be amongst the popp...

The film starts in the Department of Ardèche with the Mont Gerbier de Jonc (1551 m) from where emerges the "true" source, the official, most distant one from the mouth of the Loire (1012 km), the longest wild river in France. The work looks closely t...