Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeLowave Collection
Lowave's film and video collection has been built between 2002 and 2014 and features over 250 video artists and filmmakers from around the world. The label has contributed to an important number of international exhibitions, biennials, film and video festivals, as well as academic programmes. As Lowave's activities evolve, we have stopped our film distribution and our catalogue serves now as an archive that documents over a decade of film and video art history. A selection of our DVDs is on sale at Re:Voir in Paris.
Nassim Amaouche
*1977, Sèvres, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Nassim Amaouche studied sociology at University of Paris, and then cinema at the Institut International de l’Image et du Son. He shot a first short documentary on the war photographer Marc Garranger and a short feature film De l’autre côté, his graduation film. His documentary Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux has been shown on festivals around the world: Cinéma du Réel and Biennale des Cinémas Arabes, Paris; Locarno Panorama at the Venice Film Festival, Onde Méditerranée, Berlinale, and many more. He won numerous prizes amongst: Prix Spécial Jury Cinéméd Montpellier (France), 1er Prix Ecrans Documentaires Festival Arcueil/Paris (France), Prix de la Presse Clermont-Ferrand (France), 1er Prix du documentaire (Milano), Prix du meilleur court métrage Arcipelago (Roma), Prix spécial du Jury Festival Silhouette du Court Métrage (Paris), Prix du Jury Institut du Monde Arabe, Prix Festival Vila de Conde (Portugal).
Sookoon Ang
*1977, Singapore. Lives and works in Singapore.
Sookoon Ang works with video, installation, drawing and printmaking. Her work addresses both the space which we physically dwell in and the interior space within us that is our spiritual, emotional and imaginative world. She often takes common or everyday objects and occurences and presents them in a way that goes beyond our habitual perception.
Danielle Arbid
*1970, Beirut, Lebanon. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Born in Lebanon, Danielle Arbid left her country at the age of 17 to study literature in Paris. In 1997 she followed her intuition and started making films.
Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; and sometimes she experiments with mixing different genres. Selected by a number of festivals in France and around the world, her films have received both critical and public acclaim as well as several awards including the golden leopard and silver leopard at the Locarno film festival as well as the Albert Londres prize and a grant from the Villa Medicis.
Her two feature films Dans les champs de bataille and Un homme perdu have successively been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at the Cannes film festival. Her work has been the focus of several retrospective screenings, notably the Bastia festival in 2006, Paris Cinéma in 2007, and the 2007 Gijon festival, and at the La Rochelle festival in 2008.
Carole Arcega
*1974, France. Lives and works in France.
Carole Arcega’s work is a hybrid mixture of experimental film, video art, art installations, and performances. For the past ten years she’s been an active contributor to the French experimental scene. Today she represents a new wave of corporal cinema. Her films have been screened at a number of cinemas and cultural venues around the world (Côté Court Festival, Festival Tous Courts d’Aix-en-Provence, La Ménagerie de Verre, The Pompidou Center, Italy, Canada, Serbia…). She teaches experimental film to youth and adults (Lycée Louis Lumière, la Femis, Ecole supérieure de l’Image de Poitiers…) through hands-on workshops, conferences, screenings and theoretical courses. In her role as a cultural engineer, Carole Arcega was president of the film co-op l’Etna whose objective is to promote cinema research and experimentation. She was also the co-founder of Label Ombres and regularly collaborates with the LSRH laboratory for humanities research.
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
*1976, Thailande. Lives and works in Bangkok.
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng obtained a BFA at Silpakorn University and then studied at the Digital Film Academy of New York. His films have been shown both at international film festivals and art exhibitions, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Maeva Aubert
*1970, Paris, France. Lives and works in Marseille, France.
Maeva Aubert works as a freelance curator in film and video art in parrallel to her own video art work. After studying Art History and Aesthetics at the Sorbonne, she lived several years in New York where she studied Film Directing at Brooklyn College and at Film Video Art. She was a regular at Anthology Film Archives, while curating and working on her own films such as Loisada, Avenue C, her first documentary. Her latest film China 66, is a 3-screen video installation based on super-8 familly archives shot in China in 1966 and synchronised with her own remake 40 years later. This art work is part of the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur's collection and was shown in Hong Kong in 2009.
