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Lowave 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.


Felix Dufour-Laperriere

*1981. Lives and works in Montreal, Canada.

Félix Dufour-Laperrière studied in Montreal. His works oscillate between animation, experimental cinema and narrative essays. All of them are characterized by a strong graphic approach and alternative abstraction, figuration, narration and audiovisual explorations. He is the co-founder of the online gallery Lappentis.

DUFOUR LAPERRIERE Strips 6

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Benoît Dervaux

*1966, Liège, Belgium. Lives and works in Bruxelles, Belgium.

Benoît Dervaux studied direction of photography at the Institute of Media Arts in Louvain-la-Neuve. This lead him to a lengthy collaboration with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardeene, working on many of their films, such as La promesse, Rosetta, L’enfant and Le silence de Lorna. In 2000, he directed La Devinière, which on the Library prize at the Cinéma du Réel festival of the Pompidou Centre. In 2002, he began collaborating with choreographer Heddy Maalem in the context of Time of Images, a festival co-produced by Arte and La Ferme du Buisson. This gave rise to the production of Black Spring (winner of the “Best Dance for the Camera” prize, New York, 2003). He then worked with Solveig Anspach and Daniel Danis. Since 2004, he has been researching abstraction and the hypothetical links between image in motion and painting. Elements of his work on this question were integrated in the staging of Sacre du printemps by Heddy Maleem. In 2005, he acted as cinematographer in the making of director Jean-Pierre Denis’s La petite chartreuse and, in November of that year, the Vienna cinémathèque organized a retrospective of his films.

MAALEM A Rose is a rose 

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Guldem Durmaz

*1971, Paris, France. Lives and Works in Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium. 

Güldem Durmaz completed her foreign language (English and Turkish, her parents' tongue) and French Literature studies at the Sorbonne in 1993. Since 1994 she has been working as a film and theatre actress. In 2001, she wrote and directed her first short, Şoför/The Driver, shot entirely in the streets of Istanbul, starring Leos Carax's favourite actor Denis Lavant. Koro (The chorus) followed in 2002. Both films were made with the support of the Belgian Ministry of Culture. These films have received awards at numerous international festivals (Locarno, Venice, Saint-Petersburg, Amiens, Washington DC...)

In 2004, she worked with Belgian directors Bénédicte Liénard and Valérie Vanhoutwinck, co-directing Pour vivre, j'ai laissé (To live, I left behind), a documentary shot in a refugee center in Brussels. Currently in charge of theater and video workshops in Paris and Brussels, she is working on a feature-length documentary essay entitled Kazarken (Digging) alongside her other projects – including stage work and video installations. Güldem's work explores the links between memory, language, and culture, as well as transcultural and identity issues – experimenting with actors and non-actors, secret or invented languages, real-life or oneiric spaces and situations.

DURMAZ Koro 1

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Hilton Earl

*1964, UK. Lives and works in London, UK.

Hilton Earl began acting at the age of eight and continued into his thirties, living on a sporadic diet of Agatha Christie and pantomime. After his agent retired, he decided to change course and start making films. In September 1999 he enrolled at the University of East London for a degree in theory and history of film. One Last Thing is an independent production financed with his student loan.

Earl One last thing

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Zen Marie

*1980, Durban, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Zen Marie studied photography at the Market Photo Workshop in 1995 and thereafter completed a BAFA degree (with distinction) majoring in sculpture, at the University of Cape Town in 2001. Alongside this artistic training Zen Marie went on to pursue two post graduate studies: a two year studio residency at de-ateliers in Amsterdam and a Masters degree at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis based at the University of Amsterdam where he graduated in 2006 (also with distinction). He currently lectures at the Wits School of Arts where he tutors senior under graduate students, as well as supervises Masters students. Zen Marie exhibits locally and internationally.

MARIE CANE Foucaults Children

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