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 the image as it metamorphoses over time. As a result of this work, she was able to interweave the frames as the film strip passes the lens several times. This method of working is meticulous and complex because it involves recording a series of images, frame by frame, in the camera, so they appear simultaneously when projected on the screen.
