Film
Loop for Clay & Ceramics & Puppets project, generously supported by the AFK
Test for Clay & Ceramics & Puppets project, generously supported by the AFK
Starry Message
Starry Message is a mosaic-film made out of of found footage and images shot around the house, at an aquarium and at sets made at the studio. It presents self-contained worlds, soothing for the eye and the body - no surprise such visuals are often used as meditation tools. Watching images of a jellyfish gracefully swimming behind glass is mesmerising and quiet - an utterly different experience than when one bites you. When watching a film we absorb an illusion, but our physical and mental experiences are real. Adding playful animations on top of and below such images, Rosenthal opens up new perspectives, like a dance -often light and afloat, sometimes hinting at darker longings.
This film was made as an episode for RietveldTV
This video is a registration of the installation (an animation, two photographs and several ceramic pieces) made for the exhibition Architectural Healing (5 Oct- 11 Nov 2018).
In a panopticon prison no longer in use in the city of Haarlem artists were asked to make a work responding to the environment of a cell. The clay-animation is made on top of the windows of cell 0.29 and reflects on the choking sense of being imprisonment. Prisoners depend on their imagination to get through the day. Here is no view, just light coming in, except a glimpse of the sky.
By focusing on tiny inorganic things a breathing space, a shelter from the demands of life, may form itself.
(2017 duration 7'45)
Old machines are being explored intimately by a macro lense. Gradually their identity is being disclosed while a journalist from the former Polish People's Republic shares his memories. This film was made as part of a collaboration project with artist Richtje Reinsma (under the name of DRR) and the Wende Museum in Culver City, US. The voice over is by Sasza Malko.
(2015 duration 7’00)
The forgetting of objects
Tiny touches, discoveries through the camera lens and the natural sounds of the room. An interplay between the filmmaker as a performer and the desires of her materials. From the series The Forgetting of Objects – an inventory through 18 hours of footage in a material world.
(2014 duration 24'49)
Tiny touches, discoveries through the camera lens and the natural sounds of the room. An interplay between the filmmaker as a performer and the desires of her materials. From the series The Forgetting of Objects – an inventory through 18 hours of footage in a material world.
This film is a shorter edit from the same footage as the Forgetting of Objects – an inventory through 18 hours of footage in a material world. Meanwhile, looking elsewhere was joint winner at the Swedenborg Film Festival 2016 in London. Here's an interview with Daphne Rosenthal on the website of the Swedenborg Society.
(2014 duration 9'58)
(2011 duration 19'29)
This animation sheds light on the isolation of both man and woman in a scene from The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956).
(2008 duration 3'15)
This film shows the experience of an actress being strangled. As her last supper I have given her a most cinematic death.
(2008 duration 2'50)
Test for Clay & Ceramics & Puppets project, generously supported by the AFK
Starry Message
Starry Message is a mosaic-film made out of of found footage and images shot around the house, at an aquarium and at sets made at the studio. It presents self-contained worlds, soothing for the eye and the body - no surprise such visuals are often used as meditation tools. Watching images of a jellyfish gracefully swimming behind glass is mesmerising and quiet - an utterly different experience than when one bites you. When watching a film we absorb an illusion, but our physical and mental experiences are real. Adding playful animations on top of and below such images, Rosenthal opens up new perspectives, like a dance -often light and afloat, sometimes hinting at darker longings.
This film was made as an episode for RietveldTV
A room with a view
This video is a registration of the installation (an animation, two photographs and several ceramic pieces) made for the exhibition Architectural Healing (5 Oct- 11 Nov 2018).
In a panopticon prison no longer in use in the city of Haarlem artists were asked to make a work responding to the environment of a cell. The clay-animation is made on top of the windows of cell 0.29 and reflects on the choking sense of being imprisonment. Prisoners depend on their imagination to get through the day. Here is no view, just light coming in, except a glimpse of the sky.
Imitation
By focusing on tiny inorganic things a breathing space, a shelter from the demands of life, may form itself.
(2017 duration 7'45)
The Third Ear – a taped memory
Old machines are being explored intimately by a macro lense. Gradually their identity is being disclosed while a journalist from the former Polish People's Republic shares his memories. This film was made as part of a collaboration project with artist Richtje Reinsma (under the name of DRR) and the Wende Museum in Culver City, US. The voice over is by Sasza Malko.
(2015 duration 7’00)
The forgetting of objects
Tiny touches, discoveries through the camera lens and the natural sounds of the room. An interplay between the filmmaker as a performer and the desires of her materials. From the series The Forgetting of Objects – an inventory through 18 hours of footage in a material world.(2014 duration 24'49)
Meanwhile, looking elsewhere
Tiny touches, discoveries through the camera lens and the natural sounds of the room. An interplay between the filmmaker as a performer and the desires of her materials. From the series The Forgetting of Objects – an inventory through 18 hours of footage in a material world.
This film is a shorter edit from the same footage as the Forgetting of Objects – an inventory through 18 hours of footage in a material world. Meanwhile, looking elsewhere was joint winner at the Swedenborg Film Festival 2016 in London. Here's an interview with Daphne Rosenthal on the website of the Swedenborg Society.
(2014 duration 9'58)
Het Lied van Heer Halewyn
Animation made with an abundance of materials loosely based on the Dutch fairy tale Het Lied van Heer Halewyn. This tale tells about the longing of a young princess for a man and her journey to meet him. The sound is made by Teun Hocks, Tom Nestelaar and Jochem van Tol.(2011 duration 19'29)
Watching The Man Who Knew Too Much
A reflection on how the mind and body digest moving images. What and how do we perceive and how does the wandering camera evoke a new way of looking, letting go of the compositions chosen by Hitchcock, entering a visual language where the camera stands in for the eye, forgetting what it is looking at, and then trying to catch up with the subject at hand. (2009 duration 2'30)Him and Her
This animation sheds light on the isolation of both man and woman in a scene from The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956).
(2008 duration 3'15)
Drowning
This film shows the experience of an actress being strangled. As her last supper I have given her a most cinematic death.
(2008 duration 2'50)
