 Rose Lowder's Bouquets
Thursday, February 17, 6:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
(164 N. State St. / 312.846.2600)
Still from Bouquets 1-10 (1994-95). Courtesy the artist and Light Cone, Paris.
Rose Lowder in person!
Brimming with vibrant images of blossoms, orchards, insects, and grasses, the works of celebrated French filmmaker Rose Lowder literally buzz with life. For over thirty years, she has crafted a body of stunning structuralist portraits of the pastoral environs around her home in southern France. Often shot one frame at a time and composed through elaborate, pre-designed in-camera edits, each of her films also explores the possibilities of photographic and visual perception. Viewed together, they offer a dynamic investigation into the rhythms and cycles of the natural world. This evening, in her first-ever Chicago appearance, Lowder will present a selection of old and new works, including her on-going Bouquets series, each one-minute tributes to the flora and fauna she films. 1979-2010, France, 16mm, ca. 90 mins plus discussion.
ROSE LOWDER (b. 1941, Lima, Peru) trained as a painter and sculptor in Lima, Peru, and London, England. From 1973-75, she worked as a film editor for the BBC. After moving to Avignon in the late 1970s, she began a regular exhibition series for experimental film and in 1981, founded, with Alain-Alcide Sudre, the Les Archives du Film Expérimental d'Avignon (AFEA). Lowder continues to live and work in Avignon and is currently an associate professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute's Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
2/24 - Andrea Geyer: Criminal Case (Andrea Geyer in person!)
3/3 - Radical Closure
3/10 - Yael Bartana: A Declaration (Yael Bartana in person!)
3/17 - The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity (Brian Springer in person!)
3/31 - Tony Cokes: Notes on Evil (and Others) (Tony Cokes in person!)
4/7 - Botborg! (Live performance! Joe Musgrove and Scott Sinclair in person!)
4/14 - Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure (Live performance! Sandra
Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Olivia Block in person!)
LOCATION AND TICKETS
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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