INDEPENDENT DVD LABEL
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. Our catalogue features artists with varied backgrounds working with different techniques (film and digital video) and multiple modes of expression, and ranges from abstract experimental films (Cosmogonies, Hybride, Blacklight, City2City) to militant documentaries (Libertybound, Hors Pistes...). Alongside historic figures such as Maurice Lemaître (a French Lettrist artist and filmmaker), Takahiko Iimura (a Japanese video pioneer), and Helga Fanderl (a German master of super-8), Lowave has put forward some of the most important young artists from around the world, including from China, USA, Iraq, Finland, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine.
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 HC Gilje, Hugo Verlinde, Valérie Pavia and Pierre-Yves Cruaud, experimental filmmakers such as Johanna Vaude and Carole Arcéga, literary filmmakers such as Françoise Romand, avant-garde musicians such as Rodolphe Burger and Yves Dormoy, and live performers such as Label Ombres, Yuki Kawamura and Project_Singe. Brought together under the Lowave label, these films suddenly begin to 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 work on urban landscapes; the dissipation of the human form.
In additional to individual, monographic titles, the Lowave catalogue also features a number of compilations, including Different Cinema, a DVD series made in collaboration with the Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Hors Pistes, coedited with the Pompidou Center, and Resistance[s], a collection of avant-garde Arab film and video art. A series of documentaries on art, Artists at Work, completes the label’s editorial selection. All Lowave DVDs are subtitled in at least three languages and enriched by texts and interviews that allow us to hear the viewpoints and reflections of the artists.
"These compilations are really important in giving talented young artists the exposure that would otherwise be difficult to attain without reputation and
money." - FILMINK (Australia)
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LOWAVE NEWS
EVENTS
• 16/05-31/10/2009 | Exhibition MALACHI FARRELL - Strange fruit hanging in the street @ Centre d'art Le Lait, Albi, France
• 07/06-15/11/2009 | Discover TAYSIR BATNIJI'S online project - DATE-VIDEO on the occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
• 14-16/08/2009 | A selection of Lowave films will be shown @ LITSIDE FESTIVAL, Westergasfabriek-Terrein, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 06/09-01/11/09 | PAULINE M'BAREK will be part of the exhibition - Along the Rhine – Cologne/Düsseldorf @ Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany. Two RESISTANCE(S) screenings will be organized on the occasion.
• 01/10/-09/10/09 | Lowave film week in Osaka in cooperation with Alliance Française, Goethe Institut, Museum for Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan. More to follow soon...
• 17/10/09 | A selection of Lowave's city programs CITY2CITY and URBAN VISIONS will be screened @ Centre Culturel Français de Palerme et de Sicile, Palermo, Italy
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