Luke Fowler Movies

  • 2024
    A Visit With Robert

    A Visit With Robert

    A Visit With Robert

    02024HD

    In Spring 2013 I was artist in residence at Dartmouth College in New England. This was a vital time for me developing films and projects with artists...

    A Visit With Robert
  • 2012
    All Divided Selves

    All Divided Selves

    All Divided Selves

    02012HD

    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
  • 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    Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life,...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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    To The Editor of Amateur Photographer

    To The Editor of Amateur Photographer

    To The Editor of Amateur Photographer

    02014HD

    Impressionist journey through the archive of the Leeds Pavilion, which in the 1980s started out as a feminist photo studio. Former members, male and...

    To The Editor of Amateur Photographer
  • 2008
    Bogman Palmjaguar

    Bogman Palmjaguar

    Bogman Palmjaguar

    02008HD

    Bogman Palmjaguar is a portrait of a man who became distrustful of people and withdrew into nature. Bogman is passionate about the threatened habitat...

    Bogman Palmjaguar
  • 2023
    No Interior

    No Interior

    No Interior

    02023HD

    No Interior
  • 2008
    Helen

    Helen

    Helen

    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...

    Helen
  • 2009
    A Grammar for Listening (Part 3)

    A Grammar for Listening (Part 3)

    A Grammar for Listening (Part 3)

    02009HD

    In part 3, Fowler furthers his on-going dialogue with the sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda (Yokohama, Japan). Toshiya Tsunoda develops an on-going...

    A Grammar for Listening (Part 3)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2025
    For Ben

    For Ben

    For Ben

    02025HD

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

    For Ben
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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