An introduction to the work of one of the most important contemporary film artists, Rose Lowder, containing critical essays by prominent critics and curators, a catalogue raisonné of her most significant body of work, the Bouquets series, and a collection of articles by the artist herself, most originally published in French and translated here for the first time.
The critic Michael Sicinski writes in his essay “Flower Power”:
"Ah, yes! Rose Lowder! " This is the response when the name of the French experimental filmmaker comes up in conversation among the avant-garde cognoscenti, the recognition that Lowder is not only a major master of our time but a kind of inevitability, one of the essential pillars of cinema as a material art form. And yet, her work isn't as widely written about or addressed in canonical surveys, compared with comparable figures of her generation, with comparable levels of achievement. It seems that Lowder is taken as a given, part of the overall landscape of the experimental film universe, an axiom. No one makes films like hers, but there are dozens of films for which Lowder is the only logical point of comparison. Her “Bouquets” series has become her best known set of films, arguably the works that cemented her reputation...
