Kathy Rose Movies

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

Animation and bizarre creative imagery

Animated film by Kathy Rose

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

"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...

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

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

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

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

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...