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LOWAVE is an independent film label founded in 2002 to promote experimental film and contemporary video art and make them accessible beyond the film festival and gallery circuit. LOWAVE provides an insight into the vibrant world of contemporary artistic creation. The LOWAVE catalogue features artists with a background in video art, such as François Guiton, Zineb Sedira, HC Gilje, Mounir Fatmi and Triny Prada, experimental filmmakers such as Massimilian and Nina Breeder and Raqs Media Collective, literary filmmakers such as Francçoise Romand, avant-garde musicians such as Rodolphe Burger and Yoshishiro Hanno, and live performers such as Label Ombres, Yuki Kawamura and Project_Singe. Brought together under the LOWAVE label, these films resonate with each other. Trends are clearly visible in the skilled creativity which forms the foundation of LOWAVE’s catalogue: the simultaneous creation of both sound and image; the dissipation of the human form; the work on urban landscapes; political and regional subjects. In addition to individual, monographic titles, the LOWAVE catalogue also features an important number of compilations, including DIFFERENT CINEMA, a collection of experimental film co-edited with the Collectif Jeune Cinéma, HORS PISTES, co-produced with the Pompidou Center, RESISTANCE[S] and RE:FRAME, two collections of avant-garde Arab and Indian film and video art. A series of documentaries on art, artists at work, as well as portraits complete the label’s editorial selection.
Site :
www.lowave.com
Adresse/contact :
LOWAVE
14 rue Taylor
75010 Paris
France
+33 (0)1 45 72 50 10
silke@lowave.com
CONDITIONED
Güldem Durmaz, Hatice Güleryüz, Berat Izik, Burçak Kaygun, Erkan Özgen, Ferhat Özgür, Ethem Özgüven, Sener Özmen
Turkey, 2010
experimental, documentary
A compilation of eight experimental film from Turkey that explores the intellectual conditioning of children through both the educational system and contemporary Turkish society at large. Through a variety of styles and approaches, each of these works elude to the conditioning of youth including references to the daily repetition of the national anthem,violent military methods, social injustice.
Suppléments :
«Interviews», booklet with a text by the curators Yekhan Pinarligil & Silke Schmickl.
RESISTANCE(S) III
Basma Alsharif, Danielle Arbid, Fabian Mireille Astore, Ismaïl Bahri, Halida Boughriet, Nazim Djemaï, Khaled Hafez, Waheeda Malullah, Larissa Sansour
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Palestin, Tunisia
experimental, documentary
A collection of nine experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa. These intimate, poetic and documentary works explore existential,political and aesthetic issues while opening up to new narrative perspectives. They present us with new perspectives on time, space, movement, memory, history, personal experience, without neglecting the place of women in society.
Suppléments :
«Interviews», text by Olivier Hadouchi, RESISTANCE[S] III : Body poetry, politics of space and time.
TRINY PRADA : MATIERE A PENSER
Triny Prada : food for thought
Triny Prada
France, 2009
experimental, contemporary art
The work of Triny Prada combines images of different origins, reprocessed through multimedia technology. She draws a dense video landscape incorporating painting, sculpture, installation and performance art. All these art forms provides material for reflection. From arms to malnutrition, she questions the interactions between man and machine by working on the motif of the wire.
Suppléments :
Interviews of Triny Prada by Silke Schmickl.
DEVIL COME TO HELL AND STAY WHERE YOU BELONG
Breeder Massimilian & Nina
USA, 2009
creative documentary
From a small cabin in the mountains of New York, Nina Breeder and Massimilian Breeder begin a journey across the United States. California is just the initial destination, but just as the edge of the surrounding landscape expands, so does their ultimate destination. A contemplation of nature and time along a raw journey in the American landscape.
Suppléments :
THE FURNACE
CITY2CITY - D’UNE VILLE À L’AUTRE
Pablo Altès, Nose Chan, Marina Chernikova, Toby Cornish, Ulrich Fischer, Augustin Gimel, Alli Savolainen, John Smith, Kentaro Taki, Dudouet & Kaplan
China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK, 2001-2005
experimental, video art
CITY2CITY compiles 10 artists from 9 different countries, all working on urban subjects. Available for the first time on DVD, all of these films offer a new way of appreciating the aesthetics of our global cities as they are perceived by today’s cutting edge video artists and experimental filmmakers.
Suppléments :
Bonus film
NOS STARS & LE PETIT DIEU
Maurice Lemaître
France, 2002
experimental
Maurice Lemaître is amongst one of the most important and creative artists of the second half of the 20th century. His cinematic work has led to a fundamental questioning of the relationship between film and spectator, image and sound, art and criticism, cinema and other types of images. His art is characterized by its inventiveness, it's joy of creating, and a radical and loud critique allowing for Lettrism to flourish as an avant-garde movement.
OUR STARS: A chronicle of the fantasies and dream of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema.
THE LITTLE GOD: An invitation to travel, one of the main themes of Lemaître, and a genuine manifestation of film Lettrism.
HORS PISTES
Philippe Fernandez, Maerva Aubert, Lucia Sanchez
France, 2004
The DVD HORS PISTES, presents 3 films selected for the first Hors Pistes Festival at the Pompidou Center in Paris and co-organised with the French short film agency (Agence du court métrage). HORS PISTES brings to light cinema from different horizons with their own fictional destinies and their own audacious and innovative styles. It's fiction bordering on documentary. HORS PISTES promotes new creative talent through medium length films, a format gaining an important place in film and art. Includes: CONNAISSANCE DU MONDE (DRAME PSYCHOLOGIQUE) by Philippe Fernandez (Fr, 2004, 44'), LOISADA, AVENUE C by Maerva Aubert (Fr, 2004, 52'), and PICK UP by Lucia Sanchez (Fr, 2004, 45')
RE:FRAME
A. Abraham, A.Avikunthak, S. Banerjee,D. Ganguly, Pushpamala N, T. Shah, Raqs Media Collective
India, 2008
experimental
RE:FRAME is a selection of seven films from a contemporary cinema, removed from Bollywood, that testifies to the richness of creativy in India. Oscillating between documentary, video art, experimental film, and animation, this compilation explores the means with which the texture of memory is incorporated within postcolonial Indian society's individual journeys as well as the national psyche; within private circles as well as public spaces. It allows for contrasting points of view regarding the country's situation and its unanswered question: when the past has yet to catch up with the present, is it a threat or an alternative to the present?
Suppléments :
- Interview of each artist
- Booklet with a text by Silke Schmickl and Cédric Vincent
COSMOGONIES
Hugo Verline
France, 2008
experimental, video
French digital artist Hugo Verlinde has been combining the wonders of mathematics
and art through his unique creations since 1992. Obscuring programming methods, theartist’s films and installations unfold into space and pull us into a universe ofstriking density.
Suppléments :
interview and articles
MOUNIR FATMI TÊTE DURE
Mounir Fatmi
experimental
The DVD TÊTE DURE includes a selection of eight videos produced and created between 1999 and 2008 by Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi. Political, provocative, spiritual and poetic, these complex works bring to light the artist's ambiguities, doubts, fears and desires relating to our world's current events. Using playful language inspired by islamic art, the Koran and european authors such as Artaud and Montesquieu, his videos toy with contextual relationships by blurring the notions of a here and there.
Suppléments :
- Bonus film
- "Cinématon" by Gérard Courant
- Interview by Nicole Brenez
- Text by Ariel Kyrou
CINEMA DIFFERENT VOL. 3
X. Baert, I. Blanche, M. Duras, A. Gimmel, M. Godovannaya, R. Kerr, F. Tachou, R.Todd, C. von Greve
France, USA, Canada, UK, Germany, 2008
experimental, video art
The DVD CINEMA DIFFERENT VOL. 3 is witness to the inexaustible range of possibilities of contemporary filmmaking. The nine films selected for 10th anniversary of the Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris are linked to the heritage of experimental film and the eternal quest for renewal; causes espoused by the festival. From the historical film CESAREE by Marguerite Duras to more contemporary creations, this ensemble of films showcases work using various formats (super 8, 16mm, digital video) within the fields of traditional cinema and contemporary art from which the filmmakers have emerged.
Suppléments :
Booklet with a text by Gabriela Gabriela Trujillo