8739 Sagamore Rd.
esorp@aol.com
www.peterrosepicture.com
SELECTED WORKS
2012 The indeserian Tablets 15 min.
2009 Journey to Q'xtlan Video installation
Fabric Workshop and Museum
2008 Conflation 30 min. video
Video installation with Mark Campbell
2008 Studies in Transfalumination 5:30 video
2005 Embodying Thoreau 5 min. video
Produced for the Fairmount Park Art Association
2004 Odysseus in Ithaca 5 min. video
Commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
2004 Flat Rock 30 min. video
Commissioned by Voom for high-def broadcast
2003 Pneumenon two-channel, 5 min. video installation
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Phila.
2002 The Geosophist’s Tears 8 min., video
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, London Film Festival
2001 Omen 10 min. video
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington
Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC
2000 Rotary Almanac 4 min. video
Delaware Art Museum, Biennial, 2000
2000 The Darkening 8 min. video
Delaware Art Museum, Biennial, 2000
Oberhausen and European Media Art Festivals
1998 The Revolt of the Masses 2 min. video
7th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
1997 Virtual Objects and Embodied Images. video installations
Multiple collaborations with sculptor Jeanne Jaffe
1997 Understory 8 min. video/performance/installation
American Music Theatre Festival; Phila. Museum of Art
1996 Metalogue 3 min. digital video
World Wide Video Festival; Oberhausen Int’l Film Festival
1995 Overture Permanent sound/video installation commissioned by the City of Phila.
for the Philadelphia International Airport
1994 Pavilion in the Trees 4 min. video
Commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association
Broadcast by WHYY-TV
1993 The Gift 6 min. audio
Commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts
1992 The Ruins at Esku Killar Iva 10 min. video
Commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association for public broadcast;
National Video Festival 1993
1991 Genesis 4 min. Single channel video installation work
Installed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila
1990 Ben Franklin Dreams of His Immortal Soul 20 min. video
Three-channel audio/video installation installed at the
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1989 Siren Two-channel audio/video installation at the Phila. Museum of Art
1988 Foit Yet Cleem Triavith Continuous video installation piece for two channels,
four monitors; installed at Pa. Academy of Art; School 33, Baltimore
1987 Babel 17 min. audio/video/film/text
New Music America Festival National Video Festival, Los Angeles
Fingerspan 8 min. video
Broadcast over PBS affiliate WHYY-TV
1984 Digital Speech l3 min. video color sound
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Festival Award
Athens Video Festival, Athens Award
Broadcast over PBS affiliates in NYC, Boston, and L.A.
1984 SpiritMatters 6 min. l6mm silent
Baltimore, Ann Arbor, and Experimental Film Festivals
1983 The Pressures of the Text l7 min. video color sound
Whitney Biennial, l985
American Film Festival: Video Art-Red Ribbon 1985
1983 Secondary Currents l6 min. l6mm B/W sound
Major prizes at festivals in the U.S. and abroad
“The American Century”, Whitney Museum. 2000
1981 The man who could not see far enough 33 min. l6mm color sound
Major prizes at festivals throughout the United States
Extensive international exhibition and acquisition
Sally Banes, Village Voice: "painfully beautiful"
1977 Analogies: studies in the movement of time l4 min. l6mm color sound
American Film Festival "Film as Art" l980
Amos Vogel: "sensuous.., sumptious..., concentrated power"
1975 Study in Diachronic Motion 3 min. l6mm color silent
Collected works: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
1970 Incantation 8 min. l6mm color sound
Roger Greenspun, NY Times: "massive and lovely"
Whitney Museum, "New American Filmmakers" l972
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS AND FESTIVALS
2012
Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco
2011
Millennium Film, NYC
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Underground Worlds, Hastings, UK
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
2010
Museum London, Ontario, Canada
Webster Film Society, St. Louis
Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent
Crossroads, San Francisco
WNDX Festival, Winnipeg
National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Experiments in Cinema 5.1, Albuquerque
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Video Dumbo, Brooklyn
Winnipeg Festival of Film and Video Art
2009
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Phila.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Onion City Experimental Film Festival
"Polyglottolalia" at Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
National Building Museum, Wash. DC
2008
24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Antikenmuseum, Basel "Homer: The Myth of Troy in Literature and Art"
Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim
Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Paris, Berlin "Odysseus in Ithaca"
Exis Experimental Video Festival, Seoul
Dallas Video Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
High Zero, a festival of New Music, Baltimor
2007
Fox Art Gallery, University of Pa.
Bard Center for Curatorial Studies
Michener Museum, Doylestown
2006
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, MOMA
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, Boulder
Temporary Identities - Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia.
Philadelphia Art Alliance
"In the Eye's Mind: Visions of Higher Dimensions in Art, Math and Science"
University of the Sciences, Phila.
Shanghai Doulun Museum of Modern Art, China?2005 International Media Art Biennale; Wroclaw, Poland
Athens Film and Video Festival, Ohio
Humboldt Film Festival
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Maya Stendhal Gallery, NYC
Sync Festival; Athens, Greece
Time and Space Gallery; Hudson, NY
Deborah Colton Gallery; Houston
Re:Voir/The Film Gallery; Paris
2004
Images Festival, Toronto
Athens Film and Video Festival
Desert, 6th Int. Video and Electonic Art Manifestation, Montreal
The Phatory, NYC
2003
Roaratorio, Paris and Berlin
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Cinematexas
Chicago Underground Film festival
Balagan, "Language is a Virus", Boston
Westwood Gallery, NYC
Dallas Video Festival
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
10th International Media Art Biennale; Wroclaw, Poland
Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, "A History of Web Cinema"
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Phila.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
London International Film Festival
2002
Athens Film and Video Festival, Ohio
Polyphonix Festival, Paris
Le Fresnoy, France “Sans Commun Mesure”
Hong Kong Art Center
ZKM Museum; Karlsruhe, Germany
14th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Art in Motion, USC, L.A.
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC
San Francisco Cinemateque
Centre Pompidou, “Streaming Cinema”
Managerie de Verre, Flex Festival, Paris
The Red Room, Baltimore
FIFI, New Talents Competition, Lille
Four Wall Cinema, Portland
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Seoul Net Festival, Korea
Vancouver Underground Film Festival
Kino Bremen, Germany
2000
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum “The American Century”
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts
Delaware Art Museum, Biennial
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Dallas Video Festival
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
Seoul 2000, Korea
DFN Gallery, NYC
1999
7th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
Athens International Film and Video Festival
“Electromediascope”, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Alternativa Festival, Prague
1998
Transmediale Festival, Berlin
Dallas Video Festival
Network for New Music, Phila.
Impakt Festival 98, Amsterdam
Split Festival of New Film, Croatia
“Underground Visions”, Montreal
Gallery Joe, Phila.
1997
Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Phila. Museum of Art
New Arts Program Video Festival
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
New York Short Film and Video and Interactive Multimedia
1996 American Music Theater Festival
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
SoundCulture 96, San Francisco
Art in General, NYC
1995
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Cine del Mundo Festival, Portugal
1994
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Mo.
1992
National Video Festival, L.A.
1991
Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila.
Bronx Museum of Art
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1990
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sound Symposium; St. John's, Newfoundland
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
Neighborhood Film Project, Phila.
Whitney Museum, NYC
1989
School 33, Baltimore
Polyphonix XIV, Paris
Painted Bride Art Center, Phila.
European Media Art Festival; Osnabruck, W. Germany
Black Maria Film Festival
1988
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila.
New Music America, Miami
Atlanta Film and Video Festival
Intermedia/Le Lieu, Quebec
1987
New Music America Festival, Phila.
11th Festival Polyphonix, Paris
Painted Bride Art Center "Body Language"
National Video Festival, Los Angeles
WeltMusikTage; Köln, W. Germany
1986
San Francisco International Film and Video Festival
Neuro-Linguistic Programming Conference, New Orleans
Centre Pompidou, Paris "10th Festival Polyphonix"
National Video Festival, Los Angeles
Worldwide Video Festival, Holland
1985
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Whitney Biennial, NYC
American Film Festival "Video Art"
KunstMuseum; Berne, Switzerland; "Alles und Noch Viel Mehr"
NYC Experimental Video and Film Festival
Athens Video Festival
Video Culture International
1984
Baltimore Film Festival
Atlanta Film and Video Festival
Ottawa International Festival of Video Art
Walker Art Center "When Words Become Works"
Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila "Made in Philadelphia 6"
Experimental Film Festival, Chicago
4th Experimental Film Festival, Tokyo
Belgrade Film Festival, Yugoslavia
New Art in New England; Bennington, Vt.
1983
Baltimore Film Festival
Oberhausen Film Festival, W. Germany
Los Angeles Film Exposition
Sydney Film Festival, Australia
Collective for Living Cinema, NYC "Text as Film"
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Film Festival, England
Melbourne Film Festival, Australia
Edinburgh Film Festival
=Norweigian Short Film Festival
SELECTED ONE-PERSON SHOWS
2012
International House, Phila.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
2011
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
University of Pa., Phila.
2010
Webster Film Society, St. Louis
University of Colorado, Boulder
Redcat Theatre. :L.A.
California Institut e of the Arts, Valencia
State University of New York, Fredonia
2008
"First Person Cinema" University of Colorado, Boulder
"Diversions: A Festival of Experimental Film" Edinburgh, Scotland
Millennium Film Workshop, NYC
Marylalnd Institute College of Art, Baltimore
University of Maine, Orono
2007
Emerson College
Evergreen State
2006
Montclair State University
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Phila.
Ambler Theater, Doylestown
2005
Virginia Commonwealth University
2004
Berks Filmmakers, Reading
Millenium Film, NYC
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2003
Arizona State University, Phoenix
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC
2002
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dartmouth College
Rhode Island School of Design
Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia
2001
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
2000
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore
Millennium Film, N.Y.C.
1999
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
1998
Rocky Mountain Film Center, Boulder
Webster Film Society, St. Louis
The Kitchen, NYC
1997
Berks Filmmakers, Reading, Pa.
1994
Carnegie Mellon University
1993
Instituto Chileno-Nortamericano, Santiago, Chile
1992
Rhode Island School of Design
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1991
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY
1990
Reed College, Portland
Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Denver Art Museum
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Crandall Library; Glens Falls, N.Y.
1989
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Kansas City Art Institute
Baltimore Film Festival
1988
Chicago Art Institute
American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
Flaherty Film Seminar
Concordia University, Montreal
1987
Film Forum, L.A.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Experimental Intermedia, NYC
Kino Arsenal, W. Berlin
1986
Portland Art Museum, Maine
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Brattle Theatre; Cambridge, Mass.
Corcoran Gallery; Washington, D.C.
Catamount Art Center; St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson
Port Washington Public Library, N.Y.
Washington Project for the Arts
American Center, Paris
1985
Wadsworth Atheneum," Matrix 84 ", Hartford
The Kitchen, NYC
Film-in-the-Cities, St. Paul
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Neighborhood Film Project, Phila.
Real Art Ways, Hartford
Rhode Island School of Design
San Francisco Cinemateque
1984
Boston Film and Video Foundation
Collective for Living Cinema, NYC
Kent State University
Cornell Cinema; Ithaca, NY
The Other Cinema; Syracuse, NY
Berks Filmmakers
Athens Film and Video Festival
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2005 Pa. Council on the Arts Fellowship in Media Art
2004 Independence Foundation Fellowship
2000, 2001 Nominated for a Rockefeller Fellowship in Media Art
1999, 2001 Pa. Council on the Arts Fellowship
1998 Nominated for a Rockefeller Fellowship in Media Art
1997 Pew Fellowship in the Arts
1997 Pa. Council on the Arts Project Grant
1994, 95 Mid-Atlantic Regional Media Grant
1988, 91, 92 Mid-Atlantic Regional Media Grant
1986 Mid-Atlantic Regional Media Grant
National Endowment for the Arts, Media Production Grant
1984 Pa. Council on the Arts, Creative Fellowship Grant
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Film and Video
1983 Mid-Atlantic Regional Media Grant (NEA sponsored)
National Endowment for the Arts, Performance Art Fellowship
1982 Pa. Council on the Arts, Media Production Grant
1981 Governor's William Hazlett Award in Media Arts
Pa. Council on the Arts, Creative Fellowship Grant
1978 National Endowment for the Arts, Media Production Grant
SELECTED AWARDS
2010 Director’s Award, Black Maria Film Festival, “The Indeserian Tablets”
2009 "Transfalumination Award" Ann Arbor Film Festival, Studies in Transfalumination
2004 Second Prize, Black Maria Film Festival, Odysseus in Ithaca
2003 Director's Citation, Black Maria Festival, Geosophist's Tears
2000 Director’s Citation, Black Maria Festival, The Darkening
1999 Honorable Mention, Athens Film Festival, Revolt of the Masses
1997 Second Prize, Black Maria Film and Video Festival-Metalogue
Bronze Award, New York Short Film and Video Expo, NYC
1993 National Video Festival, L.A. The Ruins at Esku Killar Iva
1990 Judge's Award, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Siren
1986 Honorable Mention, San Francisco Film Festival, Digital Speech
1985 Red Ribbon, American Film Festival-Pressures of the Text
Festival Award, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Digital Speech
Athens Award, Athens Video Festival, Digital Speech
1984 Best-of-Festival Award, Big Muddy Film Festival-Secondary C.
Ann Arbor Film Festival -SpiritMatters
First Prize, Baltimore Film Festival - SpiritMatters
Atlanta Film and Video Festival- Pressures of the Text
Experimental Film Festival-SpiritMatters
Grand Prize, Black Maria Film Festival- Pressures of the Text
1983 San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival-the man who...
Honorable Mention, Oberhausen Film Festival, the man who..
First Prize, Three Rivers Arts Festival- Secondary Currents
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour-Secondary Currents
Golden Athena, Athens Film Festival-Secondary Currents
First Prize, Baltimore Film Festival- Secondary Currents
1982 Director's Prize, Baltimore Film Festival-the man who...
Ann Arbor Film Festival, multiple awards-the man who....
American Film Festival, finalist-the man who...
1981 Special Jury Prize, Festival International Jeune Cinema;
Hyeres, France-the man who could not see far enough
First Prize, Black Maria Film Festival-the man who ...
SELECTED PUBLICATION
2011 Knowles, Kim "I am Trying to Speak with Light/An Interview with Peter Rose"
Millennium Film Journal No. 53 pp. 28-38
2008 Finkelstein David various reviews in Film Threat Magazine
2004 Halpern, Paul "The Great Beyond", Higher Dimensions ......
John Wiley and Sons; pp. 294-5
Delorme, Stephane “Deux Rose et trois bouquets”
Cahiers du Cinema #596 Dec. 2004 p. 92
Zhu "Peter Rose" Art World pp. 46 - 48 CN 31
2003 Copland, Collette Fotophile Magazine, issue 45
2000 Gamwell, Lynn Dreams 1900-2000 Cornell Univ. Press p.272
1998 Rose, Peter Chain 5 Spring 1998 pp. 130-137
Text and image from “Pressures of the Text”
1996 Cinema for the Ear: Audio Art by Film and Video Artists
Sound Culture 96 Pacific Film Archive
1995 MacDonald, Scott Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by
Independent Filmmakers Univ. of Ca. Press pp.156-174
Tafler, David “The Irresistible Interface: Video’s Unknown
Forces and Fire-Lit Waves” pp. 235-251 Critical Issues in
Electronic Media State University of New York Press
1992 Faller, Greg “Secondary Currents and the Linguistic Message”
Media Criticism: Journeys and Interpretations edited by
Scodari and Thorpe; Kendall/Hunt, 1992; pp. 94-103
1991 Pickel, Regula The Independent May 1991 “Between Irony and
Empathy: Peter Rose’s New Video Installation” pp.28-31
1990 Ferguson, Bruce Illuminating Video p. 516, ft #7
edited by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Pfeiffer Aperture
1989 Burbank, Carol New Art Examiner Summer 1989 p. 46 review
of Labys (Siren) at the Painted Bride
1988 Tamblyn, Christine Afterimage Jan. 1988 "To Live and Die in L.A."
review of National Video Festival p.2
Rose, Peter "On the Edge" Cinematograph - Fall, 1988
Marincola, Paula "Matter of Time" Art Forum Nov. 1988; p149
review of installation at Pa. Academy of Fine Arts 6/88-9/88
Beavais, Yann "Mots, dites, image" catalog for show organized
by Scratch and the Centre Georges Pompidou;10/88-11/88
1987 Tamblyn, Christine Afterimage March 1987 "Reading Between
the Lines" review of Video and Language show at LACE
1986 Carr, Jay Boston Globe review of Brattle Theatre show p.60 2/19/86
MacDonald, Scott Afterimage Vol. 13, No. 8, March 1986,
"Text as Image" pp.9-20
Jost, Jon American Film "Hear,Hear!" Vol.XI, No. 9 July 86 pp. 66-67
Razutis, Al Opsis Vol. 1, No. 2/3
"Proposition for the Deconstruction of Cine-Structuralism" pp. 16-23
"The Films of Peter Rose" pp. 23-32
"Peter Rose" interview pp. 32-39?
Zweig, Ellen The Act Vol. I, No. 1 Winter/Spring 85/86
"Suspicious Language" pp.37-41
1985 Rose, Peter "Introduction to Pleasures of the Text" Spiral #3
(audio cassette) April l985 Side B, No.6
Moy, Jim High Performance Vol.8, No. 2 pp.76-77 review
Gartside, Thomas New Art Examiner June 1985 p.52 review
1984 De Michiel, Helen Afterimage "Talk,talk" (review
of Word Works show at Walker Art Center) Vol. ll No. 7 Feb.
Rifkin, Ned "Made in Philadelphia 6" catalog for show at the
Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila. Univ. of Pa. 4/l0/84
Banes, Sally Village Voice "He Who Must See" 5/22/84
review of show at Collective for Living Cinema p.86
1983 Schenkel, Thelma Millenium Film Journal No.l2
"The Man Who Could See Far" Fall-Winter '82/83 pp.ll2-l20
Perlmutter, Ruth New Art Examiner Feb. l983 "Interview with Peter Rose" pp.l2-13
1982 Rose, Peter Downtown Review p.52 Spring l982 "Letter to the Editor Piece"
1979 Rose, Peter Film Library Quarterly "On the Making of Analogies" pp.7-l3 Vol.l2; No.4
1978 Rose, Peter Frames: a selection of drawings and sketches
by contemporary independent animators pp.5-6; ed. George Griffin; Capitol City Press; Montpelier,Vt.
1977 Carroll, Noel Soho Weekly News "Unity and Diversity" review of Film Forum show l2/77
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Australian National Film Archive-Analogies, The man who ...
Centre Pompidou, Paris- The man who...., Secondary Currents, The Geosophist's Tears
Concordia University “Secondary Currents”
Donnell Film Library, NYC- Analogies, The man who.., Pressures of the Text
Duke University- Secondary Currents, Genesis
Emerson College- Vox 13, Selected Works
Hartford Atheneum-Pressures of the Text
Harvard University-Pressures of the Text, Digital Speech, Secondary Currents
Image Forum, Tokyo-The man who could not see far enough
Learning Channel-The man who could not see far enough
Marvin and Ruth Sackner Collection of Concrete Poetry, Miami
Pressures of the Text, Digital Speech; Vox 13
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute-Study in Diachronic Motion,Digital Speech, The man who..., Secondary Currents, Pressures of the Text
Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pa. The Geosophist's Tears, Rotary Almanac
Ngee Polytechnic Institute, Singapore- Analogies
Oberhausen Film Collection, W. Germany-The man who could not see far enough
Philadelphia Museum of Art- Odysseus in Ithaca
South Carolina Arts Commission-The man who could not see far enough.
Virginia Commonwealth University- much
Yokohama Museum of Art-The man who could not see far enough
DISTRIBUTION
Canyon Cinema; San Francisco
Canadian Film Distribution Centre, Toronto
Filmmakers' Cooperative, NYC
Heure Exquise, Lille
The Kitchen, NYC
Light Cone, Paris
Lux, London
Museum of Modern Art, circulating library
Re:Voir, Paris
roARatorio, Paris
EMPLOYMENT
Professor of Film, University of the Arts 1971 to present.
8739 Sagamore Rd.
Phila, Pa. 19128
215 508 0218
esorp@aol.com
www.peterrosepicture.com
