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.
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.
Ashish Avikunthak
*1972, India. Lives and works between Calcutta, India, and New Haven, USA.
Ashish Avikunthak is an experimental filmmaker from India whose films have been shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. He has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University and now teaches film making at the University of Rhode Island.
Xavier Baert
*France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Xavier Baert has been making movies since 1999, mostly on silver-halide film. He is also a programmer at the Cinémathèque de la Danse and a member of the artist-run film laboratory Etna. His movies are caracterized by the image of a dreamed body, dancing, and lustful, and by the nakedness. His practice evolves from film to film, and combines different formal treatments in a never-ending quest of the sublime. Being a filmmaker with an eclectic knowledge, he claims the influence of «traditional filmmakers (Wong Kar Wai, Ferrara, De Palma) as much as experimental ones such as Soukaz, Lemaître, Almuro, whose common point would be the radicality of authorship. Xavier Baert and his danser Cyril Accorsi were recently greeted as residents at the Centre National de la Danse in order to extend their artistic collaboration.
Rita Bakacs
*1976, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Rita Bakacs was a student of Comparitive Literature at the University of Cologne and the University of Rochester where she gradutated with a Masters degree. She studied documentary filmmaking with German director Andres Veiel in Berlin. Her video art works have been exhibited in Toronto and Berlin, while her films have travelled and competed in several international festival circuits. Currently she is recipient of the "cast & cut" scholarship in Hannover and works on a documentary funded by German film fund nordmedia and the German network NDR.
