Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeLowave Collection
Lowave's film and video collection has been built between 2002 and 2014 and features over 250 video artists and filmmakers from around the world. The label has contributed to an important number of international exhibitions, biennials, film and video festivals, as well as academic programmes. As Lowave's activities evolve, we have stopped our film distribution and our catalogue serves now as an archive that documents over a decade of film and video art history. A selection of our DVDs is on sale at Re:Voir in Paris.
Ulrich Fischer
*1971, Geneva, Switzerland. Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ulrich Fischer has been working with film and video since 1994. His work includes installations, performances and interactive media. He is active in three film groups (Perceuse Productions, Spoutnik cinema, Zebra Lab) and gives theoretical and technical curses on cinema. He graduated from the Geneva Art School ( E.S.A.V.) in 2000.
Between 1996 and 1998, Fischer made four 16mm films: 20 Lustres, a 15 min collaborative film; Es geht auch schneller, a 12 min experimental animation; Rendez-vous, a 12 min fictional film; and Un îlot dans la ville, an 18 min documentary.
His films have been shown in several festivals and cinemas throughout the world. In 2000, he made La ville de S, a 35mm short fictional film which was shown in a dozen festivals and broadcasted several times by ARTE. His latest videos, 4 courtes pièces were completed in 2004 as part of a commissioned program for Swiss television (SFDRS).
In parallel to his own projects, Ulrich Fischer also produces documentary films, such as Nos racines silencieuses by Ania Temler and L’image à paroles by Michel Favre.
Olivier Fouchard
*1969, Troyes, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Olivier Fouchard studied printing and tapistrey at the C R E A R school in Gouvieux dans l'Oise. During the beginning of the 1990s after having spent two years at an art school in Cambrai, France, he participated at a number of collectif and individual exhibitions.
Since 1994, he has created a number of films and musique concrète videos. His films are distributed by experimental film co-operatives (Light Cone, Collectif Jeune Cinéma) and have been shown at a number of festivals and institutions. Since 1999, he makes films with Mahine Rouhi.
Lombardi-Clan
*Founded 1994 in Germany. Based in Germany.
The Lombardi-Clan are actually two film-makers, Gerd born in 1969 and Silvana Lombardi born in 1965. Their contribution to the world of film is very rich and personal. As founders of Wurzelfilm, a company specializing in visual media creation, they also find the time to supporting the International Bruce Lee Club which they helped found. Their filmography is as varied as their own interests and includes experimental film, commercial satire, documentary films, and even kung-fu films. Their films are financed with help from their own Italian olive oil label, Olio Lombardi.
Yoko Fukushima
*1976, Japan. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Organic, minimal, fragile, hybrid, Yoko Fukushima’s formal works result in a contemplation of the life cycle: contemplation motivated by desire to explore the least fold of being temporal. She has exhibited widely in international museums, galleries and film festivals.
Debkamal Ganguly
*Kolkata, India. Lives and works in Kolkata, India.
After getting a Master in Geology, Debkamal Ganguly studied at one of the leading film schools in India, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata where he graduated in 2000. His film learning has opened for himself a widening gap between film practice and film scholarship. He wants to reconcile these two disciplines through his practice. As a son of parents who were direct victims of the partition of India in 1947 the notion of ancestral land is an elusive notion for him and maybe a reason for his interest in moving spaces and frames. As a conscious practitioner of video and film, he acts as an editor, script-writer, sound designer and overall creative collaborator and was awarded for his collaboration on Vipin Vijay’s Video Game with the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007. Beside his artistic activities Debkamal is also an independent researcher on various topics of popular Indian media culture. His current projects include a research project on early Indian cinema and in particular the silent era, as well as a video work on one of the most challenging Bengali writers of 20th century, Kamal Kumar Majumdar. His récent creation Videodrone is a part of the Video Art section of the Indian Highway exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2008/2009.
Lamya Gargash
*1982, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Lives and works in United Arab Emirates.
Lamya Hussain Gargash studied visual communications at the American University in Sharjah where she graduated in 2004. She has completed her Masters in Communication Design at the St. Martin's school of Art and Sesign in London. Her first experimental movie Wet Tiles was shown at many film festivals around the world and received several awards. Lamya Gargash has also participated in numerous photo exhibitions.
