Kathy Rose Movies

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...

A hybrid dance-animation piece in which Kathy Rose performs against her own projected imagery, creating a ritualistic, dreamlike fusion of movement,...

The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own...

Floating apparitions predominate in this music-video interpretation of the poetic Greg Boyer ballad.

Film by Kathy Rose. 1971/1972

Directed by Kathy Rose.

Entering the magical world of web builders....in which we work and breathe with them as they unreel a complex harmonious world...we follow.

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

An insectoid fantasy with an indio/arachnid soundtrack by C.P. Roth. The film reflects Rose's fascination with butoh dance theatre.

As the rain falls backwards, a golden queen rises up. As the gold drips out of her body, we enter her mind into a metaphysical kingdom.

Rendered with a Fifties avant-garde sensibility, The Ladies model, move, and transform, all to minimalist hand-made percussion.

Animated film by Kathy Rose

Miss Nose and her class engage in drawings in an absurdist animation.

As the masks fall, our true faces are revealed in this film's nocturnal universe of drawings where the loons cry and the fireflies bespeckle the sky.

A collection of recorded excerpts of some of Kathy Rose's celebrated live performances, including The Cathedral of Emptiness, Oriental Interplay, and...

Animation and bizarre creative imagery

A delightfully and cleverly animated film similar in style to Kathy Rose's other films

A dance where the stylized personae impart a world of pattern and rhythm. Rose originally used the film's music for a live dance that combined...

Early black and white live action portrait film by Kathy Rose.

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...