Kathy Rose Movies

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

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

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

Directed by Kathy Rose.

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

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

Film by Kathy Rose. 1971/1972

Animation and bizarre creative imagery

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...

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...

Animated film 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.

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...

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

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...

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

Rose’s mesmerizing encounter with a variety of orchid beings and her own unstoppable imagination.

In this film, the viewer is taken to a beautiful landscape of tress that gradually becomes more psychedelic and dreamlike. At the end the dreamers...

A poetic vision of the self and the moon, carpeted with voices; a ritual of the mind.