Movies by Peter Rose
Studies in Transfalumination
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. All the images were shot in real time, there is no animation, but through the power of a peculiar form of illumination they become mysterious and evocative.
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough
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.
The Pressures of the Text
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.