As part of the BAMcinématek series Migrating Forms at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Rachel Rose presents three recent videos: A Minute Ago (9min, US, 2014), in which a freak hailstorm obliterating a perfect beach day is juxtaposed with the peacefulness of Philip Johnson’s Glass House during a Connecticut downpour; Palisades in Palisades (9min, US, 2014), which is set inside a Revolutionary War oil painting and depicts the infinitesimal details of, presumably, a girl’s modern-day visit to the same shores of the Hudson River; and Sitting Feeding Sleeping (10min, US, 2013), whose protagonists are exotic animals held in captivity, performing these eponymous actions as a means of demonstrating life.

Programmed by Kevin McGarry, the screening also includes a clip from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (13min, 1972), a source for Rose’s video A Minute Ago, which finds the band playing live among the ruins, and T.Z. (9min, US, 1979, 16mm), Robert Breer’s classic of avant-garde animation set in Nyack, NY, and overlooking the Palisades.

This screening will feature a Q&A with Rachel Rose. 

Thursday 11 December 2014
Artist Spotlight: Rachel Rose

Mirating Forms, BAMcinématek
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose Cinemas
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Brooklyn, New York
USA
(718) 636-4100