Kathy Rose Movies

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

Animated 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...

Directed 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.

Animation and bizarre creative imagery

Film by Kathy Rose. 1971/1972

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

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

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

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.

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

"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...

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

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

As the eye awakens and brings forth consciousness, prepare to enter the world of the interior.

A vividly colorful film in which weird beings emerge from the screen to cavort.

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.

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.