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.
Masha Godovannaya
*1976, Moscow, Russia. Lives and work in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Masha Godovannaya was born in Moscow in 1976 where she studied music and publishing before leaving for the United States in order to join the Mecca of experimental cinema, the Anthology Film Archives. During several years, she devoted herself to programming film series in various cultural institutions and festivals, and in the meantime produced her own movies. These movies are instinctive, and the result of a consequential post-production work, creating thus a precise and original audiovisual relationship. Her cinema is set in the inspired tradition of New York underground cinema, where she was trained, spending time around Jonas Mekas. She now continues her activities in Saint Petersburg, and teaches cinema at the Smolniy College of Liberal Arts and Science.
Joude Gorani
*1980, Damascus, Syria. Lives and works in Damascus, Syria.
After graduating from the FEMIS in 2005 with a degree in cinematography, Joude Gorani now lives and works in Syria. Before Vanishing is her graduation film. She has since worked as a cinematographer on documentaries such as Black Stones directed by Nidal el-Dibs, When I Evaporated directed by Camilla Magid and Dols by Diana Eljeroudi.
Matthias Groebel
*1958. Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Matthias Groebel is a painter and new media pioneer. He has been working with video since 1995 and his tapes have been shown at the Portobello Film Festival in London, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and in the Museo Del Arte Moderno in Medellin. Some pieces are part of the new media archive run by IMAI in Dusseldorf.
Martin Gracineau
*1972, France. Lives and works in Nantes, France.
Martin Gracineau developed an interest in sound via his love of music, especially guitar based rock from the New York noise-improv scene and British pop. After having studied physics, his work diverged towards audiovisual creations, and it’s in Quebec where he started to work as a sound editor for the North American cinema industry.
Upon his return to France, he worked as a sound engineer, director, teacher and musician. Today he focuses his artistic projects around audiovisual experiences that explore the musicality of real-world sounds and how they can be transformed and reshaped.
Jean-Francois Guiton
*1953, Paris, France. Lives and works in Breman, Germany.
Jean-François Guiton studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1980-1985. He was lecturer at the Bergische Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal from 1987-1994 before becoming Professor of media in the areas of fine art and visual communication at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg (1994-1998). Since 1998, Jean-François Guiton is professor of new media at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen.
