Lothringen, a Seoul-based film collective, and KU Cinema present Masqué derrière le nom de la plus fameuse des fleurs, a curated program showcasing the work of Rose Lowder and Anne-Marie Faux.

"Hidden behind the name of the most famous of flowers there lies a homage."
Jean-Pierre Rehm describes Anne-Marie Faux's film Hic Rosa, partition botanique, based on the prison letters of Rosa Luxemburg, in these terms. He continues: "To what? To the colour red, to flushing women. To women enraged by justice like Rosa Luxemburg; to women engaged in the austere precision of an art of truth like Danièle Huillet." Sharing the same etymological root in the word "rose" and the same initials R.L., Rosa Luxemburg and Rose Lowder are linked in this program.

Between 1915 and 1918, while imprisoned, Rosa Luxemburg collected plants from the grounds of the prisons where she was held and assembled them into a herbarium. She enclosed specimens in her letters and exchanged them with friends. The form of these letters—sentences contemplating the vitality of nature accompanied by a few flowers—is carried into Anne-Marie Faux's film. In the film, images of flowers are accompanied by a voice reading Luxemburg's correspondence. This passion for rendering plants onto a surface also connects to a lineage of garden films made by filmmakers such as Marie Menken and Margaret Tait. Rose Lowder, too, shares with Rosa Luxemburg not only a name but also an affinity in her attitude toward small living beings. The working notebooks that necessarily accompany the making of Bouquets likewise recall a herbarium.

Peter Kubelka argued that the smallest structural unit of cinema is the single frame. Rose Lowder, however, stated that "that's not the case at all," and that "pieces from different frames can make up what you’re seeing on the screen." For Lowder, cinematic perception is therefore not determined by a single frame but emerges from the image formed on the screen through the combination of different frames. According to Lowder's intention, the Bouquets series can be projected at both 18 fps and 24 fps. While the difference in projection speed does not directly alter the image within the frame itself, in her terms the difference manifests on the screen. Following the filmmaker's own guidance, this program presents Bouquets once at 18 fps and once at 24 fps.

In the end credits of Hic Rosa, the following phrase appears: "à ces rencontres avec eux." It is a dedication to a film made a few months earlier, and to Danièle Huillet, who left the world after making that film. This program is likewise a homage to those who have captured the trembling of grass. (Il-hwan, Park Kyujae)

Screening 1 – Les Jardins de Rose Lowder + Face au vent, partition buissonnière – Saturday, April 4 at 3:00 PM

• Habitat - Batracien (Rose Lowder, 2006) – 9 min, 16mm
• Côté jardin (Rose Lowder, 2007) – 4 min, 16mm
• Jardins du marais (Rose Lowder, 2010) – 3 min, 16mm
• Jardin du soleil (Rose Lowder, 2010) – 2 min, 16mm
• Jardin du sel (Rose Lowder, 2011) – 16 min, 16mm
• Face au vent, partition buissonnière (Anne-Marie Faux, 2010) - 45 min, DCP

Screening 2 – Bouquets 1–40 (24fps projection) – Saturday, April 4 at 5:00 PM

• Bouquets 1–10 (Rose Lowder, 1994–1995) – 11 min, 16mm
• Bouquets 11–20 (Rose Lowder, 2005–2009) – 11 min, 16mm
• Bouquets 21–30 (Rose Lowder, 2001–2005) – 11 min, 16mm
• Bouquets 31–40 (Rose Lowder, 2014–2022) – 11 min, 16mm

followed by an introduction by Park Kyujae

Screening 3 – Bouquets 1–40 (18fps projection) – Saturday, April 5 at 3:00 PM

• Bouquets 1–10 (Rose Lowder, 1994–1995) – 14 min, 16mm
• Bouquets 11–20 (Rose Lowder, 2005–2009) – 14 min, 16mm
• Bouquets 21–30 (Rose Lowder, 2001–2005) – 14 min, 16mm
• Bouquets 31–40 (Rose Lowder, 2014–2022) – 14 min, 16mm

Screening 4 – Hic Rosa, partition botanique – Saturday, April 5 at 5:00 PM

• Hic Rosa, partition botanique (Anne-Marie Faux, 2007) - 55 min, DCP

followed by a lecture by Shin Eunshil

This program is presented as part of the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea, with the support of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Korea.
With the support of Space Cell and EXiS – Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul.