Video 1983 - 2000

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​​​​​The Pressures of the Text  17 min. 1983
Integrates direct address, invented languages, ideographic subtitles, sign language, and simultaneous translation to investigate the feel and form of sense, the shifting boundaries between meaning and meaninglessness. 

​​​​Digital Speech   13 min.  1984
The video uses a traveler’s anecdote as a vehicle for an exploration of language, thought, and gesture, and uses nonsense language, scat singing, and video rescan for comic comment. 

​​Metalogue  3 min.  1996
Described as a cross between a “speech” and a “fireworks display” the video used digital editing techniques to reflect and refract a complex monolog about memory, time, and language. By embedding the corresponding gestures in a spectacular diachronic array, Rose creates a new form of poetry. 

​Babel  17 min. 1987
Uses processed voices, generic babble, kinetic texts, and misleading film and video images to link the linguistic implications of a third nostril to the Tower of Babel and the Strategic Defense Initiative. The video offers a critique of language as a source of authority and as a form of technology.

​The Gift  6 min.  1993
Commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts
the work was adapted from a serial bedtime story Rose told his daughter over a period of six years. It is a parable that explores the conflict between language and innocence, between sounds and ideas, and that offers a strange connection between time, language, and self.  

Understory  8 min. 1997​
​Described as a cross between “a ceremony and an incantation”, the work presents us with a story-like skein of images that suggest the journey of a figure that walks in water, the speech of fire, and the mystery of vision. 

​​Foit Yet Cleem Triavith  2 min.  1988
A manic multi-dimensional tone poem for two channels/four monitors; installed at the Pa. Academy of Fine Art, Phila and at School 33, Baltimore.  With David Moss.

​Rotary Almanac  4 min.  2000
A two channel video that presents a complex moving collage of landscape imagery through the seasons. The work was exhibited in the Delaware Art Museum Biennial in 2000.









Understory 8 min. 1997
Described as a cross between “a ceremony and an incantation”, the work presents us with a story-like skein of images that suggest the journey of a figure that walks in water, the speech of fire, and the mystery of vision.