About

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Birthday:
1947-09-26
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Peter Rose

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting

1996 Metalogue Actor Himself N/A
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1983 The Pressures of the Text Actor Himself N/A
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Directing

2023 Indigenous Display Directing Director N/A
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2022 Memories of Shared Air Directing Director N/A
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2020 A Sign of the Times Directing Director N/A
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2020 The Oculus Opens Directing Director N/A
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2019 Foit Yet Cleem Triavith Directing Director N/A
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2019 Dimensional Excursions Directing Director N/A
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2018 Towards a Six-Dimensional Cinema Directing Director N/A
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2016 A Roll for Peter Directing Director N/A
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2014 The Indeserian Tablets Directing Director N/A
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2013 Solaristics Directing Director 59
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2008 Studies in Transfalumination Directing Director N/A
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2006 Odysseus in Ithaca Directing Director 59
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2005 Embodying Thoreau Directing Director N/A
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2003 Pneumenon Directing Director N/A
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2002 The Geosophist's Tears Directing Director 59
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2001 Omen Directing Director 59
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2000 The Darkening Directing Director N/A
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2000 Rotary Almanac Directing Director N/A
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1997 Understory Directing Director N/A
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1996 River of Adventure Directing Director 59
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1996 Metalogue Directing Director N/A
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1993 The Gift: An Audio Drama Directing Director N/A
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1992 Sleeping Woman Directing Director N/A
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1991 Genesis Directing Director N/A
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1990 Siren Directing Director N/A
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1990 Ben Franklin Dreams of His Immortal Soul Directing Director N/A
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1987 Babel Directing Director N/A
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1987 Foit Yet Cleem Triavith Directing Director N/A
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1984 Digital Speech Directing Director N/A
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1984 SpiritMatters Directing Director N/A
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1984 Spirit Matters Directing Director N/A
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1983 The Pressures of the Text Directing Director N/A
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1982 Secondary Currents Directing Director 59
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1981 The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough Directing Director 59
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1977 Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time Directing Director 59
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1975 Study in Diachronic Motion Directing Director N/A
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1972 Incantation Directing Director 59
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Embodied Images and Virtual Objects Directing Director N/A
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