Direction: Luke Fowler

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luke Fowler. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Cézanne (S)

2019 · Documentary · 6 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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)...

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Patrick (S)

2020 · Documentary · 21 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Cast Maurice Tani

Plot Fowler’s new 21-minute study of Hi-NRG disco pioneer Patrick Cowley combines both strands, and follows Fowler’s 2017 study of American electronic composer Martin Bartlett, Electro-Pythagorus. Premiering as part of the...

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All Divided Selves

2011 · Documentary · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot A lyrical collage of film about R.D. Laing completed in 2011. Using footage from the Flat Time House archive amongst multiple other sources, Luke Fowler's film focuses on one of...

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What You See Is Where You’re At (S)

2001 · Documentary · 24 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot '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. Laing anti-psychiatry movement. In 1965, a community...

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Bogman Palmjaguar

2008 · Documentary · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot '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...

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Depositions (S)

2014 · Documentary · 24 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot ‘Luke Fowler’s films dwell on potentiality: what might be, what might have been, what might still be if the world were to turn in a different direction? But film time...

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A Grammar for Listening

2009 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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The Way Out

2003 · Documentary · 33 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler · Kosten Koper

Plot 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...

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Houses (for Margaret) (S)

2019 · Documentary · 5 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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Enceindre (S)

2018 · Documentary · 20 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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Pilgrimage from Scattered Points

2006 · Documentary · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot ‘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...

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An Abbeyview Film (S)

2008 · Documentary · 9 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot Commissioned by Abbeyview artist in residence (2007-2008) Nicola Atkinson Davidson as part of regeneration funding for a deprived housing estate in Dumfermline , Scotland. Rather than choosing a clear stance...

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For Christian (S)

2016 · Documentary · 6 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait

2023 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Cast Margaret Tait

Plot It centers on Margaret Tait's unrealised project about Orkney, drawing from her notes and footage to produce a blissful union of two artistic sensibilities.

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David (S)

2009 · Documentary · 3 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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To The Editor of Amateur Photographer

2014 · Documentary · 68 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler · Mark Fell

Plot Luke Fowler and Mark Fell’s new film revolves around the testimonies and collected documents linked to the complex and often contested history of Pavilion, Europe’s first feminist photography centre. To...

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George (S)

2008 · Documentary · 5 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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Anna (S)

2009 · Documentary · 3 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot 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...

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Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett

2017 · Documentary · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Luke Fowler

Plot A portrait of Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline Oliveros and John Cage. His contribution as an interdisciplinary composer, educator, and founding member of Western...

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