Peter Rose Trailers
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Since 1968 Peter Rose has made over thirty films, tapes, performances and installations. Many of the early works raise intriguing questions about the nature of time, space, light, and perception and draw upon Rose’s background in mathematics and on the influence of structuralist filmmakers. He subsequently became interested in language as a subject and in video as a medium and generated a substantial body of work that played with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, oddball performance, and a kind of intellectual comedy. Recent video installations have involved a return to an examination of landscape, time, and vision. Rose has been widely exhibited, both nationally and internationally, having been included in shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Film Society at Lincoln Center, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pew Foundation, the Independence Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and is fond of writing descriptions in the third person.
As he has written: Some of us work in a proximate relation with our intended audiences, speaking familiar languages so that the archetypes of our culture may be recognized; and some work out a self-creating interiority from which, if we are lucky, we bring back the shape of a newly imagined alphabet of feeling. I find myself oscillating between these two agendas and find the dialectic a productive one, a reflection of the complex, contradictory nature of our times.
Most Popular Peter Rose Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
27 June 2022
A reflection on the dynamics of public space in the time of Covid.
01 January 1990
A three-channel video installation that was commissioned on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Franklin's death.
14 April 2000
2000 Peter Rose short work
05 September 2020
A visual tone poem in six-dimensions.
25 May 1993
A metaphysical children's story for three voices (no image).
25 May 1991
Genesis recounts a story about embodiment "told" using voice synthesis and animation display on a MacIntosh computer.
21 June 1997
1997 Peter Rose short film
01 January 2018
60 minutes of experiments in multi-dimensional cinema using a variety of stereoscopic rigs.
21 June 1983
1983 Peter Rose short film. A parody of art/critspeak, educational instruction, gothic narrative and pornographic diction, it has been performed as a live work at major media centers and new music festivals in the US and Europe.
11 June 2014
"The Indeserian Tablets” is a complex, mesmerizing and beautiful short by Peter Rose. The film is in the form of an archeological treatise on a fictional vanished people, whom Rose imagines living in a remote past, with an advanced technology which is quite unlike our own.
14 April 2006
Odysseus moors his boat in an alien architectural machine, a labyrinth-- A place of mystery and power where the rules of visual perspective are transformed and another space erupts.
25 May 1984
1984 Peter Rose short work
01 January 2013
On the phenomenology of the black sun; an anthology of sightings; on ways of seeing; an ecoparable.
25 May 1990
1990 Peter Rose experimental short
21 June 2000
2000 Peter Rose short experimental film
25 May 1996
1996 Peter Rose short work. A magician-like figure delivers a peculiar speech that is embedded in extravagant arrays of time-delayed images that reflect and refract ideas about memory, time and language.
08 April 2023
A juxtaposition of the victory parade for the Philadelphia Eagles with the ruins at Machu Pichu.
14 April 2003
2003 Peter Rose short work
16 May 2008
Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a discarded table, the underside of a bridge, fog, a piece of rock and a tree.
10 October 2019
A manic multi-dimensional tone poem to be seen in 3D.
01 January 1982
Secondary Currents is a film about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended assortment of nonsense, it is an 'imageless' film in which the shifting relationships between voice-over commentary and subtitled narration constitute a peculiar duet for voice, thought, speech, and sound.
21 June 1992
1992 Peter Rose short work
01 January 1975
A first experiment in diachronic motion: the simultaneous presentation of an action from several different perspectives in time.
29 November 2020
A veiled metaphor for the instabilities of our times.
14 April 2002
The Geosophist’s Tears (2002, video) was shot during a seven week cross country road trip in the aftermath of Sept.
25 May 1987
An experimental short by Peter Rose.
21 June 1987
1987 Peter Rose short film
05 December 2024
Towards a six-dimensional cinema. A 3D video suite of multi-dimensional excursions.
17 September 1981
A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.
15 April 1977
Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time uses a variety of multiple screen formats to create an intriguing series of visual riddles.
09 November 2016
Twenty-plus former students, colleagues, and admirers of Peter Hutton answered an invitation to shoot A Roll For Peter.
14 April 1972
Using rapidly edited, superimposed images of plants, trees, water, the sun and the moon, Incantation weaves a dynamic tapestry of organic forms and textures, combining its images with a fierce rhythmic intensity so as to suggest a kind of natural force.
14 April 2001
Veteran experimental artist Peter Rose’s Omen richly alternates highly treated images of the natural world and of the human, built environment – both streams shrouded in dread.
08 April 2026
Shot rather surreptitiously in train stations in NYC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. All sound was recorded on location.
30 July 2025
A suite of anaglyphic explorations: a riff on the Philadelphia Marathon, an image of automotive insanity, and a lament for the American West.
25 May 1984
A silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. The film was constructed without a camera by writing directly on clear celluloid and then ‘translated’ by refilming the resulting strips on a light table so that they appear as ‘subtitles’ beneath the original inscription.
