Luke Fowler

Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait (2024)

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret's life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential Margaret envisaged for film as a poetic medium ...

N'importe Quoi (Extérieur - Jour) (2024)

The second part of the N'importe Quoi series, the first being N'importe Quoi (for Brunhild), also comprises footage of Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari at her home in Montreuil, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, and at various other sites in the city, along with a se ...

A Visit With Robert (2024)

In Spring 2013 I was artist in residence at Dartmouth College in New England. This was a vital time for me developing films and projects with artists Toshiya Tsunoda, Christian Wolff and Larry Polanski. I recently discovered a roll I shot during this time ...

N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) (2023)

...in this new film, the performativity of his subject - Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari is self-evident. Composer Brunhild Ferrari, born 1937 in Frankfurt a.M., Germany moved to Paris in 1959 where she would meet and marry the composer Luc Ferrari. Brunhild Meyer, ...

No Interior (2023)

COP26FILM (2023)

COP26FILM was shot in Fowler's home city of Glasgow during the period that the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) took place there in from October 31 – November 12, 2021. Denied entry to the main "blue zone" the artist instead made daily walks aro ...

Houses (for Margaret) (2019)

Luke Fowler constructed this tribute to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait on the occasion of her centenary. Setting off to Tait's native Orkney, Fowler creates a record of her life and work through images of her past dwellings, filming locations an ...

Cézanne (2019)

Shot on 16mm and featuring a soundtrack by Toshiya Tsunoda, Luke Fowler's film pays tribute to the French master's impressionistic approach to light and nature (notably his Mont Sainte-Victoire series) through his own resplendant glimpses of landscapes and ...

Mum's Cards (2018)

My mother is a Sociologist – she came to Glasgow from the south of England in the 60's to work within the Politics Department of Glasgow University- after a few years the Sociologists broke away and formed their own department, where she taught until she ...

Enceindre (2018)

If the word Enceinte (meaning the "main defensive enclosure of a fortification") is synonymous with "the body of the place"– what does it means to live within a body that is outside of time and without purpose? could these places be considered Hetrotopia ...

Country Grammar (2017)

Fowler's film focuses on Sue Tompkins' performance 'Country Grammar' created in 2003, one of her earliest pieces performed within a gallery context. ...

Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (2017)

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, John Cage, and Pandit Pran Nath. His contribution as an interdisciplinary composer, ...

For Christian (2016)

Fowler's portrait of New York School composer Christian Wolff continues his investigation into the legacies of 20th-century avant-garde music. Short, handheld shots taken at Wolff's New Hampshire farm are assembled in diagonal relation to a soundtrack that ...

To The Editor of Amateur Photographer (2014)

Impressionist journey through the archive of the Leeds Pavilion, which in the 1980s started out as a feminist photo studio. Former members, male and female, give their vision of the studio's artistic and activist past, the reasons for which are as current ...

Depositions (2014)

The quietly insistent and critical DEPOSITIONS attempts to restore some dignity to images of the communities of the Scottish highlands taken from patronizing BBC documentaries and news features from the 70's and 80's. DEPOSITIONS repurposes footage from th ...

The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper and The Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott (2012)

Turner Prize-winner Luke Fowler's film focuses on the life and work of the socialist historian EP Thompson and his involvement with the Workers Education Association. Presented in a documentary style format, combining archive and contemporary footage, the ...

All Divided Selves (2012)

Collage film about R.D. Laing, who spearheaded the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s, weaves archival material with his own filmic observations. For Laing normality meant adjusting ourselves to the mystification of an alienating world. ...

Tenement Films (2009)

A series of portraits, made for Television, of four diverse individuals brought together through shared residence. These short films were filmed in the tenement where I lived for eight years. The first is shot in our bedroom, which doubled up as my former ...

A Grammar for Listening (Part 3) (2009)

In part 3, Fowler furthers his on-going dialogue with the sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda (Yokohama, Japan). Toshiya Tsunoda develops an on-going philosophical line of enquiry regarding the art of field recording, as a conceptual act, and that of the relatio ...

A Grammar for Listening (Part 2) (2009)

In part 2, Fowler initiates a new collaboration with Parisian-based composer Eric La Casa. Eric La Casa often consults maps, not in order to locate the habitat of specific species or significant sights but more prosaically to calculate proximity to traffi ...

A Grammar for Listening (Part 1) (2009)

How to create a meaningful dialogue between looking and listening? Luke Fowlers film cycle A Grammar for Listening (parts 1-3) attempts to address this question through the possibilities afforded by 16mm film and digital sound recording devices. In part 1, ...

Lester (2008)

As the winning artist of the 2008 Film London Jarman Award, Luke Fowler was commissioned to produce four short films for 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4s shorts strand. The four films premiered on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights in April 2009. Entitled, ...

David (2008)

As the winning artist of the 2008 Film London Jarman Award, Luke Fowler was commissioned to produce four short films for 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4s shorts strand. The four films premiered on Channel 4 over four consecutive nights in April 2009. Entitled, ...

Bogman Palmjaguar (2008)

Bogman Palmjaguar is a portrait of a man who became distrustful of people and withdrew into nature. Bogman is passionate about the threatened habitat of Scotland's Flow Country. But Bogman's early life and subsequent diagnosis as "paranoid schizophrenic" c ...

George (2008)

George was an attempt to reconsider the basic components of my approach to filmmaking and boil them down to their bare essentials. The act of looking is implicit in my past documentary work but in this study it becomes the focus. The starting point for the ...

Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2006)

'Pilgrimage from Scattered Points' is a film about the English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) and The Scratch Orchestra (1968-73). Cornelius Cardew formed the orchestra with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1968 and published their draft const ...

Half Life (2006)

This film was made during NVA's Half-Life production which took place in Argyll in 2006. ...

The Way Out (2003)

A film about the life & time of ex The Homosexuals bass player Xentos Jones Luke Fowler's The Way Out: A Portrait of Xentos Jones, made in collaboration with Kosten Koper, is a tribute to underground punk musician and film-maker Xentos Jones and his band T ...

What You See Is Where You’re At (2001)

What You See Is Where You're At is a disturbing collage of found and archived recordings constructs a profile of renegade psychotherapist R. D. Laings anti-psychiatry movement. In 1965, a community of 20 people-anti-psychiatry leaders, including Laing hims ...

A Visit With Robert (2024)

In Spring 2013 I was artist in residence at Dartmouth College in New England. This was a vital time for me developing films and projects with artists Toshiya Tsunoda, Christian Wolff and Larry Polanski. I recently discovered a roll I shot during this time ...