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To a sound-track of fun-house screams and cackles, Mirror People, a tribe of Halloween hallucinations, fuse into each other and get absorbed into their reflections and their environments in a universe where all is flux and nothing is stable, except for the constant delights of metamorphosis. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to vary my persona. A sea of richly colored figures floating and flying are accompanied by eerie sounds. The animated figures are constructed in the manner of puppetry and collage. The imagery continues until the artist's involvement with her "canvases" is revealed, with her performative self finally emerging.
Floating apparitions predominate in this music-video interpretation of the poetic Greg Boyer ballad.
A hybrid dance-animation piece in which Kathy Rose performs against her own projected imagery, creating a ritualistic, dreamlike fusion of movement, film, and sound.
Film by Kathy Rose. 1971/1972
Directed by Kathy Rose.
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Part Fantastic Voyage, part celebration of my younger self, this is a finely crafted jewel in which I am looking for those who are not immune to splendor. Reality is both harsh and wondrous. I am trying to circumvent it all.
A poetic vision of the self and the moon, carpeted with voices; a ritual of the mind.
"In a charming fantasy about the art of aimation, each character has a unique personality. Kathy is even invited to join her characters in ther cartoon world, thus adding another playful dimension to the theme of the relationship of an artist to her materials." - WorldCat
Rose’s mesmerizing encounter with a variety of orchid beings and her own unstoppable imagination.
Early black and white live action portrait film by Kathy Rose.
Animated film by Kathy Rose