- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- July 29, 1943
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (born 1943) is an American artist. She is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video, installation, sculpture, site-specific and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler's work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport. Since the early 1970s, Martha Rosler has used photography, performance, writing, and video to deconstruct cultural reality. Describing her work, Rosler says, “The subject is the commonplace — I am trying to use video to question the mythical explanations of everyday life. We accept the clash of public and private as natural, yet their separation is historical. The antagonism of the two spheres, wh…
Filmography
movieMuseums will eat your lunch
2013 · Director
movieBecause This Is Britain
2012 · Director
movieSemiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition
2011 · Director
moviePrototype (God Bless America)
2006 · Director
movieChile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band
1997 · Director
movieSeattle: Hidden Histories
1995 · Director
movieHow Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation of Le Corbusier at Firminy, France
1993 · Director
movieBorn to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M
1988 · , Director
If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION
movieIf it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION
1985 · Director
movieMartha Rosler: An Interview
1984 · Self
A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night
movieA Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night
1983 · Reader, Director, Camera Operator
movieMartha Rosler Reads "Vogue"
1982 · , Director
Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure
movieSecrets From the Street: No Disclosure
1980 · Director
Domination and the Everyday
movieDomination and the Everyday
1978 · Director
Losing: A Conversation with the Parents
movieLosing: A Conversation with the Parents
1977 · Director
movieThe East Is Red, The West Is Bending
1977 · Director
movieVital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained
1977 · Subject, Director
movieSemiotics of the Kitchen
1975 · Chef, Director, Writer
movieBackyard Economy 1
1974 · Director
movieFlower Fields
1974 · Director
movieBackyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)
1974 · Director
movieA Budding Gourmet
1974 · , Director
tvReading the Media
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Pencicle of Praise
moviePencicle of Praise
— · Director