For many filmmakers who mount critiques of conventional cinema, the use of "experimental" to describe their work is, at best, problematic, since it seems to suggest that their films are experiments rather than finished works. But for Rose Lowder, the term is not only acceptable, but preferable. The most memorable of Lowder's films are experiments in creating distinct visual experiences that, in their reduction of day-long phenomena into brief, precise, intense cinematic moments, sing the potential of an ecological film aesthetic.-Scott MacDonald