September 7, 2006
New Lowave Releases: Lemaître and Cinéma Différent Vol. 2


Lowave has announced the release of two new DVDs of note. The first is a two film monograph of Maurice Lemaître's recent work, Nos Stars and Le Petit Dieu. As in Lemaître's other recent films such Ganeden, his visual expositions and imaginary (and imaginative) adventures are also surveys through the history of the medium (in Nos Stars, the intersection is not only of feminine dreams and desire in contemporary cinema, but also of such representations throughout the history of cinema.
The second is the latest installment of the anthology Cinéma Différent, featuring pieces by Valérie Morignat, Olivier Fouchard, Shiho Kano, Mauro Santini, Dominik Lange, Solomon Nagler, Frédérique Devaux, and Ruben Guzman. According to Lowave, the films on this edition are linked by the themes of "feminity, investigation, and the search for identity, all of which are far from being exclusive or definitive..."
