RACHEL’S BRAIN, a video collage of a solo to music commissioned by 1987’s Los Angeles Festival, explores the human brain and its place in Gaian evolution. Rosenthal derives witty and provocative visual metaphors and quotes from science in order to explore the disproportionately developed fascism of our most celebrated organ. Rosenthal plays several personae, among them Marie Antoinette, the “flower of the Enlightenment”, and a familiar hominid ancestor of ours. The piece ends on an existential note,Rosenthal searches for a non-existent deity whose absence remains obscured behind the clouds.
Rachel Rosenthal
Director
Swan Song71%
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act87%
Maria64%
Crimes of the Future60%
Barbie as the Island Princess72%
Lucy64%
Hardball65%
The Life of Chuck72%
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind80%
Help!69%
The Zero Theorem61%
Barbie in the Nutcracker68%
Pi71%
Saturday Night Fever67%
Lorelei59%
Steven Universe: The Movie81%
Videodrome72%
Little Shop of Horrors69%
Mask72%
Electric Dreams63%
