Martha Rosler Movies
- 1982
Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"
Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"01982HD
In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its...
- 1974
Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)
Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)01974HD
short of a woman mowing a lawn
- 1984
Martha Rosler: An Interview
Martha Rosler: An Interview01984HD
In this interview with Craig Owens the artist discusses her early family influences and her time at the University of California. "There was a...
- 1980
Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure
Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure01980HD
Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Francisco's Mission District. This...
- 1974
Flower Fields
Flower Fields01974HD
"This short film was intended to create a colour field painting based on the flower fields that provided the living for so many, mostly undocumented,...
- 1975
Semiotics of the Kitchen
Semiotics of the Kitchen5.91975HD
Martha Rosler explores kitchen utensils by alphabet.
- 1977
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained91977HD
Taking aim at the social standardization enforced particularly on women's bodies, Rosler critiques the politics of "objective" or scientific...
- 1974
A Budding Gourmet
A Budding Gourmet01974HD
‘A cook can’t just mix things up’, says a woman with a typical Brooklyn accent while the camera shows sophisticated images from...
- 1985
If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION
If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION51985HD
In a fusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture the...
- 1970
Pencicle of Praise
Pencicle of Praise01970HD
"Vice President Mike Pence eagerly plays cheerleader in chief for Donald Trump. In accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 2016, Pence...
- 2012
Because This Is Britain
Because This Is Britain02012HD
A visualization of phrases used by Prime Minister David Cameron during his Oxfordshire speech addressing the events of August 2011. Selected phrases...
- 1974
Backyard Economy 1
Backyard Economy 101974HD
Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of...
- 1988
Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M
Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M01988HD
Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural —...
- 1995
Seattle: Hidden Histories
Seattle: Hidden Histories01995HD
A series of one-minute interview-based spots Martha Rosler made with the American Indian community during her residence in Seattle from 1991 to 1995....
- 1983
A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night
A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night01983HD
Artist Martha Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the editorial...
- 2006
Prototype (God Bless America)
Prototype (God Bless America)02006HD
A mechanical toy figure dressed as an American soldier bends and sways, playing God Bless America — the sentimental, unofficial, and highly...
- 1993
How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation of Le Corbusier at Firminy, France
How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation of Le Corbusier at Firminy, France01993HD
Shot in Firminy-Vert, a Le Corbusier Unité, or housing project, in south-central France, this work traces the building’s history through...
- 1977
The East Is Red, The West Is Bending
The East Is Red, The West Is Bending01977HD
Rosler uses the format of a cooking demonstration (as in Semiotics of the Kitchen) to address cultural transaction--the meeting of Eastern and...
- 2013
Museums will eat your lunch
Museums will eat your lunch02013HD
In this silent video, still images of stores and residential buildings in New York City appear within a cutout template, based on the “giftbox...
- 2011
Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition
Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition02011HD
In 2003, Rosler announced an open call for a live re-staging of her 1975 video Semiotics of the Kitchen, to be held at the Whitechapel Gallery in...