Known for Sound
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a Brooklyn-based composer, vocalist, and modular synthesist working at the intersection of experimental sound art and film scoring. He composed the original score for the Oscar-shortlisted documentary UNION (2024), released as a standalone soundtrack album in 2025, and his film work includes Candyman (2021, dir. Nia DaCosta), Master (dir. Mariama Diallo), and The Color of Care (dir. Yance Ford), along with contributions to Arrival and Sicario. His solo practice centers on the voice and analog modular synthesizer, often exploring trance-like, ecstatic states through sound, and extends into video synthesis, installation, and live performance. He has collaborated with artists including Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Ben Russell, and Tarek Atoui.
Filmography
29 films, 2 shows


Rock Springs
2026 · 1h 36m
country: United States
After her father's death, a grieving young girl moves to Rock Springs, Wyoming with her mother and grandmother, only to discover something monstrous hidden in the town’s history and the woods behind their new house.


Born Secret
2025 · 20m
country: United States
A filmmaker returns to his hometown, Oak Ridge, TN, the secret city that built the atomic bomb. There, he meets the workers who created humanity's greatest weapon that now wrestle with their legacy, while their grandchildren inherit a world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe.


The Man in My Basement
2025 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Down on his luck, Charles Blakey agrees to rent his basement to a mysterious stranger, unaware he may be letting in a force much darker than he imagined.


Life After
2025 · 1h 40m
country: United States
LIFE AFTER is a gripping investigative documentary that exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying. Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport uncovers shocking abuses of power while amplifying the voices of the disability community fighting for justice and dignity in an unfolding matter of life and death. In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom battles, Bouvia vanished from public view. Sundance-winner Davenport embarks on a personal investigation to find out what really happened to Bouvia and reveal why her story is disturbingly relevant today.


Seeds
2025 · 2h 3m
country: United States
An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning land.


Union
2024 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.


Power
2024 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power.


Grasshopper Republic
2023 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Deep in the forests of Uganda, millions of grasshoppers gather to mate in devastating swarms. A group of young men set up a strange contraption at the edge of the crop fields, with customised generators, large quantities of light bulbs, barrels and sheet metal. They can then begin harvesting the grasshoppers, a prized delicacy among city dwellers.


The Color of Care
2022 · 1h 7m
country: United States
The Color of Care chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States, with a pressing focus on how the Covid-19 pandemic shed light on the tragic consequences of that inequity. Oprah’s Harpo Productions and the Smithsonian Channel are teaming up on the timely project, which traces the origins of this systemic inequity to practices that first emerged during slavery in the United States.


Master
2022 · 1h 38m
country: United States
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.


Candyman
2021 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.


The Dog Snatch
2019 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
On their first day of work as dog sitters, Rana and Marti suffer the theft of the French bulldog who was entrusted to their care by a wealthy lady. A fast-paced comedy full of hair-raising situations with cult potential that has plenty of surprises in store. The very own world of the Roman suburbs, which is rarely honored in cinemas, is also captured convincingly.


End of Summer
2014 · 29m
country: Antarctica
A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and white super 8 film as a series of mostly static tableaux over a period of 20 days during the waning days of the Antarctic Summer, the film is a startling look at life at the edge of the world.
Sunshine Soup
Sunshine Soup
2014 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Sunshine Soup captures the meeting and recording of reclusive French saxophonist Ariel Kalma and rising modular synthesist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe around their collaboration album. Set against the vibrant tones of Australia's outback, directors Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid focus an curious lens on the transportive qualities of musical exchange and friendship.


Last Kind Words
2012 · 1h 25m
country: United States
17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.