Rose Lowder Explained

Rose Lowder
Birth Place:	Lima, Peru

Rose Lowder (born 1941) is a French-Peruvian avant-garde filmmaker.

Early life

Lowder was born in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru. She attended the San Silvestre School.^[1]

Lowder studied painting and sculpture in Lima at The Art Center and the School of Fine Arts. She moved to the United States for a brief period and then to London.^{[1] [2]} There, Lowder studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic, which closed before she had finished her studies, and then at the Chelsea School of Art.^[3]

Career

While working as an artist, Lowder made a living as a film editor in London. She edited documentaries, feature films, and advertisements.^{[1] [2]} Lowder worked as an assistant editor at the BBC from 1965 to 1967. She and her partner Alain-Alcide Sudre moved to France, eventually ending up in Paris. They began to organize regular screenings of avant-garde films.^[3] In 1982, she and Sudre established the Archives du film expérimental d'Avignon.^[4]

Filmography

• Roulement, rouerie, aubage (1978)
• Certaines observations (1979)
• Couleurs mécaniques (1979)
• Champ provençal (1979)
• Parcelle (1979)
• Retour d'un repère (1979)
• Rue des Teinturiers (1979)
• Les tournesols (1982)
• Les tournesols colorés (1983)
• Scènes de la vie française: Arles (1985)
• Scènes de la vie française: Avignon (1986)
• Scènes de la vie française: La Ciotat (1986)
• Scènes de la vie française: Paris (1986)
• Impromptu (1989)
• Quidproquo (1992)
• Bouquets 1–10 (1995)
• Les coquelicots (2000)
• Voiliers et coquelicots (2002)
• L'invitation au voyage with Carl Brown (2003)
• Bouquets 21–30 (2005)
• Habitat (2006)
• Cote jardin (2007)
• Bouquets 11–20 (2010)
• Jardins du marais (2010)
• Jardin du soleil (2010)
• Rien d'extraordinaire (2010)
• Beijing 1988 (2011)
• Jardins du sel (2011)
• Sous le soleil (2011)
• Sources (2012)
• foryannfromrose (2014)
• Turbulence (2015)
• Tartarughe d'Acqua (2016)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rose Lowder: 'I Would Like to Dispense with the Flicker in My Works' . Delgado . Mónica . June 15, 2018 . Desistfilm . May 24, 2020.
2. Web site: Rose Lowder . Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre . May 24, 2020.
3. MacDonald . Scott . 1997 . Rose Lowder Interviewed . Millennium Film Journal . 30/31 . May 24, 2020.
4. Book: MacDonald, Scott . Petrolle . Jean . Wexman . Virginia Wright . Scott MacDonald (media scholar) . 2005 . Marie Menken, Carolee Schneemann, Marjorie Keller, Anne Charlotte Robertson, and Rose Lowder . Women & Experimental Filmmaking . . 206–207 . 978-0-252-07251-2.