“Patrick is made entirely from 16mm film and sound recordings produced during a residency at Headlands Centre for the arts, Marin County, California. The film focuses on the life and work of Patrick Cowley; a singular producer of dance music who pioneered the hi-NRG ‘San Francisco Sound’ in the late 1970s.” (Luke Fowler) “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 of individuals through precise compositions of the things they have left behind: recorded images and sounds, papers and notes, artwork, the spaces through which they moved […]. Patrick evokes the life of its eponymous music producer taking in the postindustrial charms of San Francisco’s now-gentrified South of Market district, once famous for its dance clubs and leather bars.”
(Ed Halter)
Luke Fowler (1978) is an artist, film-maker and musician based in Glasgow. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking, and has often been compared to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s. Working with archival footage, photography, and sound, Fowler’s filmic montages create portraits of intriguing, counter cultural figures. He received the inaugural Jarman Award in 2008 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012.
United Kingdom, 202, 021 minutes, Colour, Stereo, 4:3
Original format: 16mm Film-
Credits (production, cinematography, sound, editing, music)
A film by Luke Fowler
All Music by Patrick Cowley - courtesy of Dark Entries Records
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