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This compilation brings together films of a new genre, between cult cinema and abstract art, a form of science fiction bordering on the experimental and the fantastic. The black and white universe presented here is inherited from comic books, drawings, calligraphy, and of course photography.
Label Ombres presents new hybrid works, evolving in the imagination through expanded cinema, a cinema of sensations.
Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD, cutting-edge independent film can finally find its audience.
For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
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Lowave announces the release of a new DVD, CITYSCAPES, a programme of 4 videos by the Norwegian artist HC Gilje, who manipulates and transforms urban images from numerous international cities. His collages recreate the universal spirit of urban life, capturing it’s frenetic energy and poetry through construction of visuals and soundscapes.
The DVD features music by the noise-improv group Jazzkammer and Kelly Davis.
HC Gilje received the image award at Transmediale03 with 242.pilots and his work has been presented at: Guggenheim, Bilbao; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal; American Museum of Moving Images, New-York; Sydney Opera House; Club Milk, Tokyo; Queen Elisabeth Hall, London; Flash Art Biennale, Prague; Kiasma, Helsinki; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Transmediale, Mutek, Impakt, Taktlose, Electrofringe, ARS Electronica and Ultima festivals.
The DVD is priced at 25 Euros (17 GBP or 25 US$) and is available through the Lowave website: http://www.lowave.com as well as http://www.amazon.de and a number of specialty shops around the world including the ICA bookshop in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD, cutting-edge independent film can finally find its audience.
For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
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Lowave announces the release of RESISTANCE[S] – a DVD compilation of eight films and videos from Middle Eastern and North African artists.
The RESISTANCE[S] DVD compilation is a panorama of contemporary experimental creativity from this region of the world.. The artists presented on this DVD (Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Taysir Batniji, Mounir Fatmi, Lamya Gargash, Usama Alshaibi, Jayce Salloum, Frédérique Devaux and Waël Noureddine) are all international travellers. Their identities have been shaped by the cultures they’ve encountered during forced or voluntary states of migration and exile. Using images to lead the narrative, each artist, no matter the style or medium, succeeds in raising fundamental questions relating to humanity, politics and aesthetics. The relationship between past and present, between tradition and modernity, geographical distance and culture gaps, the status of women in today’s Arab societies, the image of these societies as portrayed by the media, as well as a number of political concerns are all central themes of this program.
The richness and diversity of the films presented on this DVD are a testament to the Arab world’s important contribution to contemporary art and cinema. Recurring themes such as displacement and immigration, identity and others, reflect essential experiences of our time. Released on DVD by Lowave and enriched by interviews with that artists and subtitles in 4 languages (English, French, German, and Arab), these films are not in themselves a form of resistance against a particular system but are rather manifestations of resistance through thinking and filmmaking, images and sounds. These are not political films but ways of politically creating films, to resist through art in a positive way.
The DVD is priced at 25 Euros (17 GBP or 25 US$) and is available through the Lowave website: http://www.lowave.com as well as http://www.microcinema.com, http://www.amazon.de and a number of specialty shops around the world including the ICA bookshop in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD, cutting-edge independent film can finally find its audience.
For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
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The film: 7 Lines for 5 Triangles 5 triangles is a documentary presentation of Felice Varini’s art installation at the Place de l’Odéon in Paris in 2003 (with the support of ART/ENTREPRISE): a continuous line bent 7 times to form 5 triangles over the architectural space. Directed by Antoine De Roux, the documentary aims to follow the artist and the participants as they take part in the making of the installation. The films shows from start to finish, the occupation of the space by Varini, his art, and his assistants, including inevitable surprises and technical challenges that happen along the way. We also get to see the reaction of passers-by and local inhabitants as well as the jubilation of the crowds during the opening night.
The DVD: Published by Lowave, the documentary is in French with optional subtitles in English and in German. Enriched by an abundant amount of documentation on the artist and his work, the DVD presents itself as an important textual and visual database and educational tool.
The Collection: The artists at work DVD collection offers a new approach to contemporary art. The objective of this series is to generate a direct and candid relationship between the viewer and the artist at work. This collection aims to position itself as far away as possible from our usual way of seeing and thinking about art and is focused on contemporary European artists in order to show in a new light the richness and diversity of the artistic process of creation itself in all it’s forms.
Available from: http://www.lowave.com, Pompidou Center, Palais Tokyo. For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
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Lowave announces the publication of a DVD/BOOK entitled FRAGIL(E) : devoted to theGerman artist Helga Fanderl.
FRAGIL(E) is a book and DVD that presents 11 Super 8 films by Helga Fanderl, made between 1986 and 2005. The selected films, Polar Bear, Passers-By, Bulrushes, Fountain, Girls, Ferris Wheel, Airplanes II, Falling Water, Under the Water Lilies, Weybridge and Fireworks, are a small sample of her large body of work which now includes over 200 Super 8 films. Helga Fanderl uses a shoot and cut technique where the act of perceiving and filming are one and the same. There is no post shot editing involved, everything is
done in the camera. The films show what’s happening in front of the camera as well as the simultaneous logical process of its transformation by using the chronology of the event as cinematographic writing.
Helga Fanderl is accustomed to creating programmes of her films that are specific to each screening. These distinct programmes play on the relationship that each individual film have with eachother in terms of subject and style and that make up a coherent world of relations and contrasts. In order to represent the performance aspect of her work, the DVD includes a 30 minute documentary commented by the artist in English, French, and German as well as an interview (in German with English and French subtitles).
The DVD itself is included as part of trilingual (English, French, German) book that presents various texts about her work by Bruno Montels, Peter Z. Herzog and Christine Noll Brinckmann, as well as a bioography and an interview with the artist by Antonie Bergmeier that aims to place the work within its historical context.
The FRAGIL(E) BOOK/DVD is sold at the recommended price of 32 Euros (or 22 Pounds) and can be purchased directly from http://www.lowave.com. It’s also available at a number of fine art shops including the ICA in London and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via DVD..
For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
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Lowave announces the release of the CITY2CITY DVD: a compilation of ten films and videos from artists from around the world. Made up of previously unreleased films, this programme offers a new perspective of urban aesthetics and artistic interpretations by video artists and experimental filmmakers.
Since the dawn of cinema, cities have inspired artists through their creative energy, mechanical forces, and architectural geometry. The birth of the metropolis coincides with the invention of new forms of art – photography and cinema – that seem to be the ideal medium for their representation. Today cities continue to fascinate filmmakers and video artists, who draw inspiration from their shapes and energy for their shooting and editing of images in movement.
The CITY2CITY DVD offers ten different visions by ten different artists and invites us to take a cinematographic trip from one city to another. Using a diversity of techniques, the works can be described through their original artistic approaches. Whether it be Worst Case Scenario by John Smith, a montage of mainly black and white photos, Exchangeable Cities by Kentaro Taki which aims to re-invent the split-screen by reconstituting a homogenous space through fragments of different places, or Marina Chernikova who with her film Crossings uses and abuses the super positioning of layers through horizontal scans. Je n’ai pas du tout l’intention de sombrer by the talented French video artist Augustin Gimel can be summed up in a simple phrase: behind buildings, there is sky. The montage consists of a rapid succession of scenes of building facades that invade the screen until they finally allow a bit of blue sky to appear. Another fine example of expression through editing is Sarajevo Vertical by Toby Cornish, an impressive portrait of Sarajevo that reveals itself vertically after so many years of war. The urban rhythm and musical score of the Hors Chants by Dudouet & Kaplan (trio including two video artists and one musician) results in an energetic graphical symphony that uses video shots of the unfinished cité de la musique in Strasbourg and overlays it with computer-generated motion graphics.
The DVD is priced at 25 Euros (17 GBP or 25 US$) and is available through the Lowave website: http://www.lowave.com as well as http://www.microcinema.com, http://www.amazon.de and a number of specialty shops around the world including the ICA bookshop in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD, cutting-edge independent film can finally find its audience. For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
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Lowave and Vidéoformes announces the release of a new DVD devoted to the French video artist Valérie PAVIA.
Valérie PAVIA, the most Russian of French video artists, has for several years now occupied a special place in the world of video art. In a daily dream state, and in order to better accommodate the leftovers of our civilization, she collects first hand accounts by letting her lens float over events. In search of life’s fly-by-night urges that throb within beings, Valérie Pavia in not a moralist; evaporated at a protective distance, but loaded with a learned dosage of naivety and malice, she ascertains with impunity. She aims just right.
Selected at the Cannes film festival, presented at a number of contemporary art museums and galleries, she’s received numerous awards including that of the Geneva Biennale in 2003, Valérie PAVIA is among today’s most talented and promising French artists. The DVD presents us with a journey through her work from the sketches to the blue period, from portraits to her latest and remarkable documentary film: The Dream of the Bear. Taking into account the richness and diversity of the Pavia’s work, the DVD includes a number of extras including interviews, documents, critical reviews, and biographical information as well as her films and videos.
The DVD is priced at 25 Euros (17 GBP) and is available through the Lowave website: http://www.lowave.com as well as http://www.amazon.de and a number of specialty shops around the world including the ICA bookshop in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Lowave is an independent DVD label with the objective of discovering and promoting contemporary film and video art. Its ambition is to create a new marketplace for the work of cutting-edge artists and filmmakers, under recognized by the traditional distribution channels, by making them accessible to the public via the DVD format. With DVD, cutting-edge independent film can finally find its audience. For further information visit the website lowave.com or contact Silke Schmickl at silke@lowave.com
The video artist Yuki Kawamura, was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1979, and currently lives and works in Paris. Strongly influences by his own Japanese culture, his work is characterized by it purist and minimalist approach that nevertheless comes across as both poetic and dreamlike.
Yuki Kawamura’s images reflect a unique capture of nature full of fragile beauty that merges scenes like in a dream, unravelling an almost lost memory. Yuki’s work talks straight to the viewers innermost sense for pure aesthetics. Fragile and dreamy images are interweaved in the search for memory and eternal unfading beauty.
Films
• Ballon (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Slide (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Scene H (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Jour de rêve (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Ve (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Port (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Voisin (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Play at dusk (2005) [DVD : Slide]
• Lethe (2005) [DVD : Slide]
French digital artists Hugo Verlinde has been combining the wonders of mathematics and art through hist unique creations since 1992. Obscuring programming methods, the artist’s films and installations unfold into space and pull us into a universe of striking density. Cascades of light or myriads of stars, the images explode with force or develop into an infinite sleekness creating a physical and voluptuous connection between our bodies and the cosmos.
A figurehead of new French experimental cinema, Hugo Verlinde’s films are shown throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Since 2005, his installations have been presented in galleries and at contemporary art exhibitions.
Films
• Geminga (2003) [ DVD : Different Cinéma Vol. 1 ]
• Derviches (1992) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
• Géminga (2003) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
• Bételgeuse (2004) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
• Altaïr (2004) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
• Ephèse (2004) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
• La levée du voile (2006) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
• Captations vidéo de différentes installations (2007) [ DVD : Cosmogonies ]
HC Gilje (1969) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, Norway in 1999. His video hkmark1 was soon picked up by festivals all over the world followed by the pioneering VideoNervous project which established Gilje as a name within experimental video. This lead to a one year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, where he created the large-scale video installation Shadowgrounds (2001). Gilje has alternated between stage projects, mainly the collaboration with the dance company Kreutzerkompani, installations, one channel videos and live video improvisation. In 2001 he started 242.pilots together with Kurt Ralske and Lukasz Lysakowski and released a DVD on the New York label Carpark, which won the image award at Transmediale 2003. Gilje also won a prize for best alternative musicvideo in Germany (2002) with the video Stacking of Different Natures, made in collaboration with the electronica duo Information. In the summer of 2003 242.pilots was presented at the FlashArt Biennale in Prague, where Gilje performed in his new constellation blind, with his audio collaborator kelly davis. Gilje performed with another project at ARS Electronica 2003, Voice, a collaboration with Maja Ratkje, Jazzkammer and Gilje. In late 2003 and early 2004 Gilje produced and toured in the UK and Holland with lab fly dreams, a collaboration with composer Yannis Kyriakides in a large orchestra piece premiering in Queen Elisabeth Hall in London. A new version of labflydreams was presented at Transmediale05. In spring 2004 he created two more stage pieces, one with Kreutzerkompani (twinn) and one with Kyriakides (bufferzone), and played with 242.pilots at Guggenheim in Bilbao. He also finished working on Night for Day with jazzkammer, which premiered in april 2004, and produced a dvd with blind (released on audi0frames in 2005).
Films
• H.K. mark1 (1999) [DVD : Cityscapes]
• Crossings (2002) [DVD : Cityscapes]
• Shiva (2003) [DVD : Cityscapes]
• Night for Day (2004) [DVD : Cityscapes]
