Sunday, January 30, 2011

Interviews with Rose Lowder on Radio and Video


From filmmaker and radio broadcaster William English, with his permission:

I interviewed Rose, Alain and Yann Beauvais in 1989.
The interviews were published in
Millennium Film Journal 23/24 in 1990/91.

The original
tape recording of that interview was broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM London's first radio Arts station as one of my Wavelength programmes on 11th December 2009.

Or from my website www.williamenglish.com, radio, 2009, December 11th

Also, my partner Sandra Cross and I made a one hour film of Rose in her Paris flat as part of Sandra's ongoing project "What did you eat today? Rose Lowder"

This video is available from Light Cone and I believe is viewable in its entirety from the Light Cone website. View video

Friday, January 28, 2011

Film Stills

Bouquet 8 (1994) Camargue
Bouquet 7 (1995) Tonnerre

Bouquet 7 (1995) Tonnerre
Bouquet 6 (1994) Vesse
Bouquet 1 (1995) Mont Ventoux
Bouquet 1 (1995) Mont Ventoux


Bouquet 1 (1995) Mont Ventoux


Les Tournesols colores (colored sunflowers) (1983)

Les Tournesols (Sunflowers) (1982)
Couleurs mecaniques (1979)
Couleurs mecaniques (1979)
Bouquet 10 (1995) Hautes-Alpes
Bouquet 9 (1995) Route de Signes All images courtesy of Rose Lowder

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Press Release

French filmmaker Rose Lowder’s USA tour kicks off in Boston

January 24, 2011 - Boston

French experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder will bring new and older films to the USA in February 7-19th, 2011. This will be her first trip to the US since 1989.

Lowder will hold a US premiere of 3 new films in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design on February 9th and the Paramount Theater on February 11th, before continuing on to Milwaukee, Chicago and New York City. She will also deliver a free lecture at MassArt on February 7th.

Lowder has made over 50 avant-garde and experimental films since the 1970’s, influencing generations of filmmakers and enthusiasts worldwide. Her 16mm films are composed frame-by-frame, and feature profound investigations of rural Europe and its inhabitants with an undercurrent of ecological concerns. She was originally trained as a painter and sculptor in Lima and London, turning to filmmaking as both an artistic practice and method for research in photographic and visual perception. Lowder is 69 years old.

This tour is curated by MassArt film graduate student Tara Nelson and funded in part by MassArt Curatorial and the Cine 2000 program of the French Cultural Embassy. Screenings are co-sponsored by and presented at MassArt Film Society; School of the Museum of Fine Arts; ArtsEmerson's Paramount Center; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s Union Theater; the Gene Siskel Arts Center and Anthology Film Archives.

Description of 2010 film, Fleur de sel (Sea Salt Flower) from Rose Lowder

“In Sea Salt Flower I tried to penetrate the Guérande Salt Marshes cinematographically; this is a land of birds and salt, recently designated a « Grand Site National » to protect it from the devastations of modern life. Far from the reverberations of contemporary society, the place has a rhythm of its own throughout the year. After winter restoration work, the mosaic of shallow salt pans are prepared, which by means of minute skilful adjustments, enable the water to circulate; combined with the effects of the sun and the wind, these allow the salt to crystallize. By the end of the process, as at the end of the film, the fine salt flower crystals float on the surface above the bigger crystals on the bottom in all directions at once.” –Rose Lowder

Tour Schedule

Monday, Feb 7 - Lecture and short screening at MassArt

Wednesday, Feb 9 – Screening at MassArt Film Society

Friday, Feb 11 - Screening at Paramount Theater

Monday, Feb 14 – Lecture at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tuesday, Feb 15 – Screening at Union Theater in Milwaukee

Thurs, Feb 17 - Screening at the Gene Siskel Center, Chicago

Saturday, Feb 19 - Screening at Anthology Film Archive, New York

For more information visit: http://roselowder.blogspot.com

To see samples of Lowder’s films visit:

http://www.lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-199-rose-lowder.html

Contact: Tara Nelson, tara.nelson@massart.edu; 412-512-2553

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Rose Lowder Filmography


1978

Roulement, rouerie, aubage

16mm b/w & c silent 15 min


1979

Parcelle

16mm c silent 3 min


Couleurs mécaniques (Mechanical Colours)

16mm c silent 16 min


Rue des Teinturiers

16mm c silent 31 min


Champ Provençal (Provençal Field)

16mm c silent 9 min


Retour d'un repère (Recurrence)

16mm c silent 19 min; 1 projector & 2 projector versions


Rapprochements

16mm n/b & c silent 23 min


Certaines observations

16mm b/w & w/b silent 14 min; Film for 1 screen & 2 projectors


1981

Retour d'un repère composé (Composed Recurrence)

16mm c silent 59 min


1982

Les tournesols (Sunflowers)

16mm c silent 3 min


1983

Les tournesols colorés (Coloured Sunflowers)

16mm c silent 3 min


1985

Scènes de la vie française : Arles

16mm c silent 21 min


1986

Scènes de la vie française : Paris 16mm c silent 26 min

Scènes de la vie française : La Ciotat 16mm c silent 31 min

Scènes de la vie française : Avignon 16mm c silent 11 min


1989

Impromptu

16mm c optical sound 8 min


1992

Quiproquo

16mm c optical sound 13 min

Music : Katie O'Looney

1994-1995


Bouquets 1-10

16mm c silent 11.33 min


1996

Trace

16mm c silent 1 min


1999

Two Pictures (in collaboration with Carl Brown)

16mm c optical sound 12 min


2000

Les Coquelicots (Poppies)

16mm c silent preferably 18 fps; 2.7 min


2001

Bouquets 21-24

16mm c silent preferably 18 fps; 5.3 min


Voiliers et coquelicots (Poppies and Sailboats)

16mm c silent preferably 18 fps; 2.6 min


2002-2003

Bouquets 25, 26-27

16mm c silent preferably 18 fps; 3.60 min


2003

L'Invitation au voyage

16mm c optical sound 33 min

(in collaboration with Carl Brown)


2004-2005

Bouquets 28-30

16mm c silent preferably 18 fps; 3.60 min


2001-2005

Bouquets 21-30

16mm c silent preferably 18 fps; 14 min


2006

Habitat, Batracien/Batrachian

16mm c silent; 8.31 min


2007

Côté jardin

16mm silent; 4.17 min


2005-2010

Bouquets 11-20

16mm c silent; 10.30 min


2010

Fleur de sel (Sea Salt Flower)

16mm c optical sound; 32 min

Music : François Alexis Degrenier


Jardin du soleil (Sun Garden)

16mm c silent; 2 min


Jardins du Marais (Marsh Garden)

16mm c silent; 2.30 min


Rien d'extraordinaire, ­ (Nothing Special)

Music : François Alexis Degrenier

16mm c optical sound; 1.45 min

24 fps unless otherwise indicated


Films in Collections

Couleurs mécaniques

Musée national d¹art moderne (Mnam), Centre G.

Pompidou

Rue des Teinturiers

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

Vidéothèque de Paris

Musée national d¹art moderne (Mnam), Centre G.

Pompidou

Champ Provençal

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

Retour d'un repère

Musée national d¹art moderne (Mnam), Centre G.

Pompidou

Les tournesols (Sunflowers) and Les tournesols colorés (coloured sunflowers)

Musée national d'art moderne (Mnam), Centre G.

Pompidou

Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

Bouquets 1-10

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island

Musée national d'art moderne (Mnam), Centre G.

Pompidou

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee

La Cinémathèque française, Paris

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Bouquets 21-30

MAC/VAL, Musée d¹art contemporain du Val-de-marne, Paris


Filmed interwiews

Frédérique Devaux et Michel Amarger, Cinéxpérimentaux n°5 : Rose Lowder,

Production EDA, 2002, 23mn

Radio interviews

Trans/formes, program by Francesca Isidori.

A l'expérience des sens. Deux femmes d'expérience.

Cécile Fontaine & Rose Lowder, France Culture, 16h30, le 21 juin 2000

films distributed by :

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Rose Lowder's films are also distributed by :

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New York, NY 10016

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Rose talks about her new film, Fleur De Sel


FLEUR DE SEL (SEA SALT FLOWER)

2010 16mm c optical sound 32 min

Music by François Alexis Degrenier

In Sea Salt Flower I tried to penetrate the Guérande Salt Marshes cinematographically; this is a land of birds and salt, recently designated a «Grand Site National» to protect it from the devastations of modern life.

Far from the reverberations of contemporary society, the place has a rhythm of its own throughout the year. After winter restoration work, the mosaic of shallow salt pans are prepared, which by means of minute skilful adjustments, enable the water to circulate; combined with the effets of the sun and the wind, these allow the salt to crystallize.

By the end of the process, as at the end of the film, the fine salt flower crystals float on the surface above the bigger crystals on the bottom in all directions at once.

- Rose Lowder

Thursday, January 20, 2011