ROSE IN LONDON feat. ROSE WOOD
ROSE IN LONDON
LONDON, Rupert Street. Rose and I met accidentally, when I was just up to open my front door after a long shooting day. It turned out she is my neighbour and a performance artist in the “Theatre of Varieties” around our corner in Soho. Travelling the stages between New York and London, she always found a few minutes to shoot with me right before, after or in between a show – no matter if it was 11pm or 4am.
Directed, filmed and edited by Saskia Reis. Music by Cecilia Lopez and Kraus
“Rose is a true legend on the queer performance scene. Her work at the Box — where she once famously vomited on Susan Sarrandon, where I once saw her throw a pair of pants marked with shit at Georgia May-Jagger — are ones which genuinely make you believe that anything is possible and that, truly, gender doesn’t really exist.
In this mini-doc, in which Rose discusses her relationship with fashion, visuals and the injurious looks she gets for the was she presents. It’s hard to describe what it’s like to watch a Rose Wood performance, or have a conversation with Rose, because the moment you’re with her you’re in a world which she dictates, all very gracefully.”
Tom Rasmussen, Author, Journalist, Screenwriter
“This video portrait features Rose, a transgender performance artist in Soho and is one of the many video portraits made by the filmmaker for her street style blog THE LOVESTREET. Intimacy and authenticity characterize the filmmaking technique that attempts to penetrate the mask and reveal something of the individual beneath the construct and costume.”
Nilgin Yusuf, Creative Director at the School of Media and Communication at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London