LOWAVE, INDEPENDENT
DVD LABEL
Lowave is an independent
film
label founded in 2002 by Marc Horchler
and Silke Schmickl 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 and multiple modes of expression, and ranges
from abstract experimental films to militant documentaries. Alongside
historic figures such as Marguerite Duras, Maurice Lemaître,
Takahiko
Iimura, and Helga Fanderl, Lowave has put forward some of the most
important young artists from around the world.
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.
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