Luke Fowler Movies

  • 2018
    Enceindre

    Enceindre

    Enceindre

    02018HD

    If the word Enceinte (meaning the “main defensive enclosure of a fortification”) is synonymous with “the body of the...

    Enceindre
  • 2025
    Being Blue

    Being Blue

    Being Blue

    02025HD

    Filmed during a residency at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, former home of artist, filmmaker and gay rights activist Derek Jarman, Being Blue touches...

    Being Blue
  • 2016
    For Christian

    For Christian

    For Christian

    02016HD

    Fowler’s portrait of New York School composer Christian Wolff continues his investigation into the legacies of 20th-century avant-garde music....

    For Christian
  • 2020
    Patrick

    Patrick

    Patrick

    02020HD

    Luke Fowler’s work has long asked how we come to know someone in their absence. He has explored this question by creating posthumous portraits...

    Patrick
  • 2018
    Mum's Cards

    Mum's Cards

    Mum's Cards

    2.82018HD

    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...

    Mum's Cards
  • 2021
    For Dan

    For Dan

    For Dan

    02021HD

    A companion piece to Mum’s Cards, For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest...

    For Dan
  • 2019
    Cézanne

    Cézanne

    Cézanne

    02019HD

    Shot on 16mm and featuring a soundtrack by Toshiya Tsunoda, Luke Fowler's film pays tribute to the French master’s impressionistic approach to...

    Cézanne
  • 2012
    All Divided Selves

    All Divided Selves

    All Divided Selves

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    Collage film about R.D. Laing, who spearheaded the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s, weaves archival material with his own filmic...

    All Divided Selves
  • 2017
    Country Grammar

    Country Grammar

    Country Grammar

    02017HD

    Fowler’s film focuses on Sue Tompkins’ performance ‘Country Grammar’ created in 2003, one of her earliest pieces performed...

    Country Grammar
  • 2007
    Paddington Collaboration

    Paddington Collaboration

    Paddington Collaboration

    02007HD

    ‘ Paddington Collaboration ’ was shot on 16mm film one morning in and around a flat in Paddington , London. Inspired by a history of...

    Paddington Collaboration
  • 2024
    Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

    Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

    Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

    02024HD

    Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life,...

    Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
  • 2019
    Houses (for Margaret)

    Houses (for Margaret)

    Houses (for Margaret)

    02019HD

    Luke Fowler constructed this tribute to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait on the occasion of her centenary. Setting off to Tait’s...

    Houses (for Margaret)
  • 2008
    Lester

    Lester

    Lester

    02008HD

    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...

    Lester
  • 2008
    Anna

    Anna

    Anna

    02008HD

    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...

    Anna
  • 2025
    For Ben

    For Ben

    For Ben

    02025HD

    Originally commissioned for Close Up—Year 20 as a part of their anniversary celebration.

    For Ben
  • 2008
    George

    George

    George

    02008HD

    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...

    George
  • 2006
    Half Life

    Half Life

    Half Life

    02006HD

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

    Half Life
  • 2014
    Depositions

    Depositions

    Depositions

    02014HD

    The quietly insistent and critical DEPOSITIONS attempts to restore some dignity to images of the communities of the Scottish highlands taken from...

    Depositions
  • 2023
    COP26FILM

    COP26FILM

    COP26FILM

    02023HD

    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...

    COP26FILM
  • 2009
    Tenement Films

    Tenement Films

    Tenement Films

    02009HD

    A series of portraits, made for Television, of four diverse individuals brought together through shared residence. These short films were filmed in...

    Tenement Films