BOUQUETS 31–40

Rose Lowder, France, 16mm, 11 min, 2015–2022

Colours, objects and their treatments go beyond the discourse of scientific research that the filmmaker usually tends to maintain. We cannot ignore the high sensuality of the scenes and their choices. Rose Lowder favours scenes of nature, even though some of the sites filmed are located in the city. Through their filmic transformation, they no longer appear to be urban manifestations but natural landscapes. In this way, Rose Lowder continues an impressionist tradition; working in nature rather than in the studio; like Cezanne, working on site is the sine qua non condition in order to reveal the “little sensation” and represent it.—Yann

Beauvais

Rose Lowder (1941). 50+ films since 1978; recent solo screenings at venues including Tate Modern, REDCAT, Media City Film Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, and Cinema Project Portland. Worked as a film editor for BBC in London, England in the 1960s. Author of The Visual Aspect: Recent Canadian Experimental Film (1991) and other books. Co-founder of Archives du film expérimental d’Avignon (1981). Lives in Avignon, France