Peter Rose

Peter Rose

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.

  • Title: Peter Rose
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  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1947-09-26
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  • Homepage: http://www.peterrosepicture.com/
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Peter Rose Movies

  • 1983
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    The Pressures of the Text

    The Pressures of the Text

    1 1983 HD

    1983 Peter Rose short film. A parody of art/critspeak, educational instruction, gothic narrative and pornographic diction, it has been performed as a...

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  • 1996
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    Metalogue

    Metalogue

    1 1996 HD

    1996 Peter Rose short work. A magician-like figure delivers a peculiar speech that is embedded in extravagant arrays of time-delayed images that...

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  • 1981
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    The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

    The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

    9.5 1981 HD

    A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision,...

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  • 1990
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    Ben Franklin Dreams of His Immortal Soul

    Ben Franklin Dreams of His Immortal Soul

    1 1990 HD

    A three-channel video installation that was commissioned on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Franklin's death. The work presents a...

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  • 1982
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    Secondary Currents

    Secondary Currents

    9.5 1982 HD

    Secondary Currents is a film about the relationships between the mind and language. Delivered by an improbable narrator who speaks an extended...

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  • 1972
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    Incantation

    Incantation

    4.5 1972 HD

    Using rapidly edited, superimposed images of plants, trees, water, the sun and the moon, Incantation weaves a dynamic tapestry of organic forms and...

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  • 1977
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    Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time

    Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time

    6.6 1977 HD

    Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time uses a variety of multiple screen formats to create an intriguing series of visual riddles. The film...

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  • 2002
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    The Geosophist's Tears

    The Geosophist's Tears

    10 2002 HD

    The Geosophist’s Tears (2002, video) was shot during a seven week cross country road trip in the aftermath of Sept. 11th. The work is symphonic...

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  • 2003
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    Pneumenon

    Pneumenon

    1 2003 HD

    2003 Peter Rose short work

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  • 2006
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    Odysseus in Ithaca

    Odysseus in Ithaca

    10 2006 HD

    Odysseus moors his boat in an alien architectural machine, a labyrinth-- A place of mystery and power where the rules of visual perspective are...

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  • 2001
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    Omen

    Omen

    10 2001 HD

    2001 Peter Rose short work

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  • 2000
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    Rotary Almanac

    Rotary Almanac

    1 2000 HD

    2000 Peter Rose short work

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  • 1990
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    Siren

    Siren

    1 1990 HD

    1990 Peter Rose experimental short

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  • 1991
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    Genesis

    Genesis

    1 1991 HD

    Genesis recounts a story about embodiment "told" using voice synthesis and animation display on a MacIntosh computer. It was installed at the...

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  • 1987
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    Foit Yet Cleem Triavith

    Foit Yet Cleem Triavith

    1 1987 HD

    An experimental short by Peter Rose.

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  • 1984
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    SpiritMatters

    SpiritMatters

    1 1984 HD

    1984 Peter Rose short work

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  • 1996
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    Metalogue

    Metalogue

    1 1996 HD

    1996 Peter Rose short work. A magician-like figure delivers a peculiar speech that is embedded in extravagant arrays of time-delayed images that...

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  • 1984
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    Digital Speech

    Digital Speech

    1 1984 HD

    1984 Peter Rose short work

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  • 1993
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    The Gift: An Audio Drama

    The Gift: An Audio Drama

    1 1993 HD

    A metaphysical children's story for three voices (no image).

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  • 1992
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    Sleeping Woman

    Sleeping Woman

    1 1992 HD

    1992 Peter Rose short work

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  • 2000
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    The Darkening

    The Darkening

    1 2000 HD

    2000 Peter Rose short experimental film

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  • 1997
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    Understory

    Understory

    1 1997 HD

    1997 Peter Rose short film

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  • 1983
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    The Pressures of the Text

    The Pressures of the Text

    1 1983 HD

    1983 Peter Rose short film. A parody of art/critspeak, educational instruction, gothic narrative and pornographic diction, it has been performed as a...

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  • 1987
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    Babel

    Babel

    1 1987 HD

    1987 Peter Rose short film

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  • 2008
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    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    1 2008 HD

    Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

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  • 2013
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    Solaristics

    Solaristics

    10 2013 HD

    On the phenomenology of the black sun; an anthology of sightings; on ways of seeing; an ecoparable.

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  • 2014
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    The Indeserian Tablets

    The Indeserian Tablets

    1 2014 HD

    "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...

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  • 2016
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    A Roll for Peter

    A Roll for Peter

    1 2016 HD

    Twenty-plus former students, colleagues, and admirers of Peter Hutton answered an invitation to shoot A Roll For Peter. The parameters were simple:...

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  • 1970
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    Embodied Images and Virtual Objects

    Embodied Images and Virtual Objects

    1 1970 HD

    A collaboration between sculptor Jeanne Jaffe and Peter Rose that involved form-fitting video projections. Presented at the Kitchen in NYC.

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  • 2005
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    Embodying Thoreau

    Embodying Thoreau

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1975
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    Study in Diachronic Motion

    Study in Diachronic Motion

    1 1975 HD

    A first experiment in diachronic motion: the simultaneous presentation of an action from several different perspectives in time.

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  • 1984
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    Spirit Matters

    Spirit Matters

    1 1984 HD

    A silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. The film was constructed without a camera by writing directly on clear celluloid...

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  • 2018
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    Towards a Six-Dimensional Cinema

    Towards a Six-Dimensional Cinema

    1 2018 HD

    60 minutes of experiments in multi-dimensional cinema using a variety of stereoscopic rigs.

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  • 1996
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    River of Adventure

    River of Adventure

    6 1996 HD

    The family are going on a river boating holiday in Turkey. Bill gets a phone call from Sir George. They have to meet. The family suspect their...

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  • 2019
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    Foit Yet Cleem Triavith

    Foit Yet Cleem Triavith

    1 2019 HD

    ​A manic multi-dimensional tone poem to be seen in 3D.

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  • 2019
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    Dimensional Excursions

    Dimensional Excursions

    1 2019 HD

    A 10 minute suite of multi-dimensional excursions.

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  • 2022
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    Memories of Shared Air

    Memories of Shared Air

    1 2022 HD

    ​A reflection on the dynamics of public space in the time of Covid.

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  • 2020
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    The Oculus Opens

    The Oculus Opens

    1 2020 HD

    A visual tone poem in six-dimensions.

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  • 2020
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    A Sign of the Times

    A Sign of the Times

    1 2020 HD

    ​A veiled metaphor for the instabilities of our times.

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  • 2023
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    Indigenous Display

    Indigenous Display

    1 2023 HD

    A juxtaposition of the victory parade for the Philadelphia Eagles with the ruins at Machu Pichu.

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