Rose Lowder: Scènes de la vie française: Avignon / Scènes de la vie française: Paris / Scènes de la vie française: Arles / Scènes de la vie française: La Ciotat (1986 / 1986 / 1985 / 1986)
@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago
1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, January 11th, at 7PM
Cinema’s Garden: The Films of Rose Lowder
Programmed by: Olivia Hunter-Willke
The practice of French-Peruvian avant-garde filmmaker Rose Lowder (born 1941) concentrates on radical ways to refine photographic and temporal features of the image. Equipped with a 16mm Bolex and filming mostly natural elements, she composes and edits images in-camera, splicing frames together as the film strip continually advances over the lens. Filmed frame-by-frame, but not sequentially, Lowder emulsifies some of the skipped frames and leaves others blank, then uses the camera to rewind and film the frames she had previously not used. Using this method, “she has created a new viewing experience, in which two different situations are viewed simultaneously” (Kortfilm). Lowder pushes the boundaries of what it means to capture nature on film, shaping a cinematographic experience with her meticulous meditations. Her films present as treasures of the natural world, but not overly precious depictions: tactile exercises of what film encompasses at its most simple yet exacting modes of operation.
All 16mm prints courtesy of Light Cone.
Scènes de la vie française: Avignon / Scènes de la vie française: Paris / Scènes de la vie française: Arles / Scènes de la vie française: La Ciotat (1986 / 1986 / 1985 / 1986)
Scènes de la vie française: Avignon / Scènes de la vie française: Paris / Scènes de la vie française: Arles / Scènes de la vie française: La Ciotat (1986 / 1986 / 1985 / 1986) still
Rose Lowder · 11m / 26m / 21m / 31m · 16mm
In all of the short films in the Scènes de la vie française series, the same weaving process is utilized. Carried out without an optical printer, small units of images taken in the same locations, from the same point of view, are recorded at different times. The process allows the viewer to see the same environment simultaneously at different periods.
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