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Bouquets 1-10
French-Peruvian filmmaker Rose Lowder (1941) developed her own unique way of filming. With a 16mm Bolex camera, she composes her images frame by frame, not sequentially, leaving some frames blank. Rewinding the film in the camera, she then exposes these previously empty, in-between frames, often at a later time (sometimes years) or in a different place. Using this method, she manipulates and transcends reality to create a new viewing experience: different situations are shown simultaneously, even if they weren’t shot this way.
In her cinema of perception, she patiently interweaves images, time, and sometimes space to let elements from different moments or places, recorded on contiguous photograms, interact on the screen and in the spectator’s brain. Filmed in the same area at different times, her famous “Bouquets” consist of a series of one-minute compositions whose 1440 frames are interlaced so that each bouquet of flowers also becomes a bouquet of images.
Bio Rose Lowder
French filmmaker Rose Lowder (Peru, 1941) studied at the Colegio San Silvestre, Miraflores. She then specialised in painting and sculpture studies in artist’s studios and art schools in Lima, Peru, and in London (Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea School of Art). While in London, she also worked as an editor in the film industry. Since 1977, she has been programming rarely shown films as the co-founder of the Archives du film expérimental d’Avignon. By focusing her research on visual perception in relation to cinematographic means of expression, Lowder examined the various ways in which one can alter the graphic and photographic features of t …
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