Jean-Luc Godard and Rose Lowder Films Play at TIFF

FILMMAKER JEAN-LUC GODARD. SOURCE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

This month, films by Rose Lowder and Jean-Luc Godard are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival!

GME distributes, to the North American university market, five films by Lowder (spanning 1978 to 1995) in a collection titled BOUQUET D’IMAGES. In TIFF’s first Wavelengths program, titled Quiet As It’s Kept, Lowder will show a compendium of short films titled BOUQUET 31—40 — 11 minutes altogether — that were shot in France and Italy between 2014 and 2022. TIFF programmers describe the collection as “at once elegant and electric in its portrayal of the natural world and the loved ones who inhabit its periphery.”

FILMMAKER ROSE LOWDER. SOURCE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

GME also distributes, to the North American university market on Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL, Godard’s 1965 wonder ALPHAVILLE, described by Time Out as one of the director’s “most sheerly enjoyable movies, a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction.” Godard was also a hero of filmmaker Warren Sonbert’s, whose films and legacy GME oversees. (For example, in 1965 and at only 16 years old, Sonbert served as Editor-in-Chief of a special edition of the New York Film Bulletin on Godard). In TIFF’s third Wavelengths program, titled Outlines, Godard’s 20 minute-long “final testament,” TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS, will make its North American premiere. Programmers describe this work as “a melancholic outline for a film that will never be made… [a] posthumous overture comprised of notes, papers, images, words, collages, clips, and music from [Godard’s] own archive.”

Visit TIFF’s website now to learn more about these exciting screenings!