ABSTRACT
My films including Close Up (1983), Denials (1985), and Guilt (1988) have also been attempts at other strategies.
Rose Lowder' s Composed Recurrence is analysed by radical feminist film theorist Lisa Cartwright: "Retour d'un Repere Campase (Composed Recurrence) is a film made by Rose Lowder in France in 1982. The film is composed of a 2 3/4 minute long negativea shot of a branch before water printed eight times singly, eight times superimposed onto a second print, out of phase (i.e. so that the images don't perfectly match or superimpose on each other) and eight times printed as a tripie super-im position, again out of phase(s). The structure is repeated every 2 1/2 seconds (that is, the initial 2 3/4 minutes mentioned are made up of a segment 2 1/2 seconds long, repeated mechanieally) using a verse form called a pantoun, as a device for organizing the sections into units. Beginning by speaking of what Retour is not may not be the most useful way of speaking of the film. The need to speak in the terms of "like" films, however, has to be
addressed before going on to the partieular ways in which the film functions differently from other experimental film.
