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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,…
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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.
Filmography
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2026
StationBreaks
Movie Director
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2026
Infernal Combustion
Movie Director
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2025
A Fanfare for the Altered Eye
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2024
Dimensional Excursions
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2023
Indigenous Display
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2022
Memories of Shared Air
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2020
A Sign of the Times
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2020
The Oculus Opens
Movie Director
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2019
Foit Yet Cleem Triavith
Movie Director
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2018
Towards a Six-Dimensional Cinema
Movie Director
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2016
A Roll for Peter
Movie Director
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2014
The Indeserian Tablets
Movie Director
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2013
Solaristics
Movie Director
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2008
Studies in Transfalumination
Movie Director
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2006
Odysseus in Ithaca
Movie Director
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2005
Embodying Thoreau
Movie Director
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2003
Pneumenon
Movie Director
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2002
The Geosophist's Tears
Movie Director
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2001
Omen
Movie Director
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2000
The Darkening
Movie Director
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2000
Rotary Almanac
Movie Director
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1997
Understory
Movie Director
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1996
Metalogue
Movie Himself
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1993
The Gift: An Audio Drama
Movie Director
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1992
Sleeping Woman
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1991
Genesis
Movie Director
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1990
Siren
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1990
Ben Franklin Dreams of His Immortal Soul
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1987
Babel
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1987
Foit Yet Cleem Triavith
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1984
Digital Speech
Movie Director
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1984
SpiritMatters
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1983
The Pressures of the Text
Movie Himself
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1982
Secondary Currents
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1981
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
Movie Director
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1977
Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time
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1975
Study in Diachronic Motion
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1972
Incantation
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Embodied Images and Virtual Objects
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