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.
Biying Zhang
*1984. Lives and works in Boston, USA.
Biying Zhang studied painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing before receiving her MFA in painting and film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in 2011. Her works have been exhibited at festivals, museums and universities across the United States and abroad. Her charcoal drawing "Portrait" was awarded first prize at the Outstanding Student Works Exhibition; the collection was published in 2006 in China.
O Zhang
*1976. Lives and works in New York, USA and Beijing, China.
O Zhang earned her BA from the Central Academy of Art in Beijing and Royal College of Art in London. She has had 90 art exhibitions and film screenings worldwide and has been invited to give lectures at Oxford University, New York and UC Berkeley among others. Her published autobiography was a Best Seller in Guangzhou for four weeks.
Quentin Briere Bordier
*1981. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Quentin Brière Bordier is a member of the Paris based experimental film lab Etna. He works mainly with analog film and develops a cinema that breaks with the rules of traditional documentary filmmaking by exploring different forms of reality through formal and narrative experimentations.
Menotti Bucco
*1965, Italy.
Since the 1980s, he has been engaged in a number of political and social projects for international charities such as the Red Cross and Amnesty International. Between 1990 and 1998, he worked as a photojournalist for some major film agencies such as Sipa Press, Reuters, and Sygma. He then got interested in the medium of film as a television journalist and independent filmmaker. He has directed several documentaries and shorts that aim to denounce social injustice.
Rudolf Buitendach
*1969, Vereeniging, South Africa. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Born in South Africa in 1969 where he graduated from film school with honours in directing, Rudolf Buitendach relocated to England in 1996 with a feature script and a small bag full of ambition. Not knowing a soul in London he started as a runner in Soho and swiftly made headway working for The Creative Partnership and The Picture Production Company, to become a top Avid promo and trailer editor, one of his trailers having been nominated for a Golden Trailer Award.
His true passion being directing, Rudolf has been making shorts on and off for six years, projected at various International Festivals, including When the Floor Became the Ceiling. Rudolf also has a self-penned Feature film in development and another 3 completed screenplays.
Rodolphe Burger
*1957, Colmar, France. Lives and works in France.
Rodolphe Burger, founder of the group Dernière Bande in Strasbourg, which became Kat Onoma in 1986, is a singer, guitarist and composer. He develops in parallel with Kat Onoma, a successful solo career (including Meteor show, and receiving the Charles-Cros prize in 1998), cine-concerts with writer Pierre Alferi and various collaborations: 48 cameras, Eugene Savitzkaya, James Blood Ulmer, etc. In 2002, he founded his own production company re-using Dernière Bande as the name. Since then, he has produced projects around sound and image, sometimes deviating signifcantly from the early rock sound of Kat Onoma but exploiting the possibilities of experimentation that the group already started. Since 2001, he creates an annual Festival des Vieilles Ploughs, increasing collaborations (from Alain Bashung to Jacques Higelin with Erik Marchand or Serge Teyssot-Gay).
