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David Lowery
David Lowery is a filmmaker from Texas. As a director, his work has been shown at Sundance, SXSW and the Cannes Film Festival, and includes the short film Pioneer and the features St. Nick and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. As an editor, he has cut such films as Bad Fever, Sun Don’t Shine and Upstream Color, for which he received an Independent Spirit Nomination.
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Filmography
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My Daily Routine
It is all in the title. MY DAILY ROUTINE is a playful visual diary of filmmaker David Lowery's days, from waking in the morning to turning in at night, when his racing mind refuses to let him sleep without working over a new creative project or reading until the wee hours. It...Watch Movie
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Pioneer
The most epic bedtime story since "1,001 Nights," David Lowery's PIONEER is both a magnificent odyssey and a powerful metaphor for the meaning of family and fatherhood. Singer/songwriter/actor Will Oldham is the blue-collar dad who, in a hushed storybook voice, recounts the story of how he met...Watch Movie
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St. Nick
When ST. NICK premiered at SXSW in 2009, it announced the arrival of Dallas-based filmmaker David Lowery as a storyteller and image-maker to watch. An intimate portrait of two young runaways wandering the beautiful and desolate landscape of East Texas, ST. NICK drops us into a lonely world seen...Watch Movie
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A Catalog of Anticipations
A woman drifts back to childhood memories of rural Texas where her discovery of the jawbone of a horse in a field leads to a fascination with, in her own words, "dead things." Her natural history collection of insects and bones takes on a supernatural quality when she finds...Watch Movie
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Some Analog Lines
David Lowery had been making short films for a few years when he took a step back. "I decided that I really needed to dedicate myself to what I wanted to do as a filmmaker and what was important to me," he explained, and so he turned his camera back on himself and his work to...Watch Movie
Genres
- Action/Adventure / Wilderness
- Animated / CGI
- Animated / Cel/Hand-Drawn
- Animated / Stop-Motion/Puppetry
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Documentary / Biography
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Realism / Social Realism
- Fantasy / Fairy Tale
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Narrative
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Narrative
Recent Reviews
A Catalog of Anticipations
childhood's end
A Catalog of Anticipations
Tired subject, flat delivery.
Some Analog Lines
A though provoking look at the way that technology impacts authorship, or – at the very least – our perception of it. Smartly edited, with prosaic voice-over, this short should...