The Bouquets of Rose Lowder are among the most alluring bodies of work in contemporary moving image art. Made at intervals over three decades, interspersed between her longer films, the Bouquets chronicle Lowder's life-long inquiry into the mysteries of visual perception.

This book invites a deeper look at Lowder's unique and beautiful world. It includes a selection of critical apppreciations, a catalogue raisonné of the Bouquet series, and a collection of Lowder's own reflections on her work.

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...

Table of Contents

• Editor’s Note
• Part 1 : Critical Views
• Toward an Ecological Cinema by Scott MacDonald
• Flower Power by Michael Sicinski
• A Filmic Exploration by Means of Botanical imagery by Enrico Camporesi
• Perceptual-Imaginative Space and the Beautiful
• Ecologies of Rose Lowder’s Bouquets by Sarah Cooper
• The Bouquet Notebooks by Tara Merenda Nelson
• Rose Lowder, Single Frame Worker by Elena Duque
• Part 2 : A Catalogue Raisonné
• An Introduction by Rose Lowder
• Bouquet 1 (1994)
• Bouquet 2 (1994)
• Bouquet 3 (1995)
• Bouquet 4 (1994)
• Bouquet 5 (1995)
• Bouquet 6 (1994)
• Bouquet 7 (1995)
• Bouquet 8 (1994)
• Bouquet 9 (1995)
• Bouquet 10 (1995)
• Bouquet 21 (2001)
• Bouquet 22 (2001)
• Bouquet 23 (2001)
• Bouquet 24 (2001)
• Bouquet 25 (2002)
• Bouquet 26 (2003)
• Bouquet 27 (2003)
• Bouquet 28 (2005)
• Bouquet 29 (2005)
• Bouquet 30 (2005)
• Bouquet 11 (2005)
• Bouquet 12 (2008)
• Bouquet 13 (2008)
• Bouquet 14 (2008)
• Bouquet 15 (2009)
• Bouquet 16 (2009)
• Bouquet 17 (2009)
• Bouquet 18 (2009)
• Bouquet 19 (2009)
• Bouquet 20 (2009)
• Bouquet 31 (2014)
• Bouquet 32 (2015)
• Bouquet 33 (2015)
• Bouquet 34 (2015)
• Bouquet 35 (2016)
• Bouquet 36 (2016)
• Bouquet 37 (2018)
• Bouquet 38 (2019)
• Bouquet 39 (2020)
• Bouquet 40 (2022)
• Part 3 : Writings
• Remarks on Color Stemming from the Bouquets
• Leaving the Artist’s Studio Behind
• Film as Visual Art
• From the Pictorial to the Filmic
• Filming Frame-by-Frame
• Improvised composition of the film image in the camera
• Notes on Contributors
• Notes
• Acknowledgments