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.
Marco Della Fonte
*Italy. Lives and works in London, UK and Italie.
Between 1990 and 1996, he shot more than 70 music videos for Italian and international artists. One of them, Vai, vai, vai by Irene Grandi, won the MTV prize for best Italian music video in 1994. Apart from music videos, Marco has directed a number of commercials for both European and American brands. In 2001, he created an independent film production company, UFO Film. Today Marco works in both Florence and in London, and is in the process of directing his first feature-length films, Huberkain and Over the sky.
Arnaud Delord
*1975, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Arnaud Delord works as a filmmaker for short films, video clips and commercials. He studied animation at École nationale des arts décoratifs in Paris. His graduation film Mr Moth inspired him towards further audiovisual experimentations in different types of media. He co-founded, with Pascal Charrue and Jérôme Combe, his own production studio Fortiche.
Christine Rose
*1969, Ohio, USA. Lives and works in USA.
Christine Rose is featured in Lowave docs collection with her documentary, Liberty Bound.
Liberty Bound / France / 2005 / 90' / 4:3
A journey of discovery into the lies, oppression, and corruption that has invaded the United States since 9/11. Through use of footage and interviews with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert, Liberty Bound explores the country's ostensible move towards fascism.
Ezra Wube
*1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Ezra moved to the United States at the age of 18 and received his BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. His works encompassing video, installations, drawing, painting and performance.
Frederique Devaux
*1956, Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Frédérique Devaux has made over thirty documentary and experimental films distributed by various international film co-ops. As a lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, she is also the author of a number of theoritical publications on art and cinema. Her work focuses on reliefs, whether they be real or imaginery, through juxtaposition of different elements including those that have been borrowed from her previous films, as well as fragments that function as trompe-l'oeils. Since 2000, Frédérique Devaux has been working on a series of documentaries on experimental filmmakers.
Nazim Djemai
*1977, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Nazim Djemaï grew up in Algiers. He came to Paris to study at the Sorbonne between 1997-1998 before completing a degree at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2004. Djemaï has created several videos, documentaries, and short films. One of his films, La Parade de Taos, depicting love encounters in the public parks of Algiers, was selected by the Premiers Plans festival in Angers, France and at the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His documentary entitled Nawna (I Don't Know), on the creation of an autonomous Inuit government, received the Beauregard award at the FID festival in Marseille.
Since 1997 Nazim Djemaï has been presenting his photographs and videos, both solo and collectively at various locations across France including the Parc de la Villette in Paris, the Cergy Beaux-Arts School, and the Cité internationale des arts. His photogaphs have been presented and published, most notably by the City of Vanves, and have been selected for the Gilles Dusein photography award. His work has been included in a number of publications including La photographie en France (Photography in France) 1970-2005 and the Plus que vrai exhibition catalogue.
