Directing

Robina Rose

Born May 29, 1951 · London, England

Died January 26, 2025 · aged 73

Born in 1951 to Danish and German parents, Robina grew up in Notting Hill, London. After leaving school, she became a film projectionist at the Arts Lab on Drury Lane, Covent Garden. She later attended the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1977, where she worked as a camera operator on Celestino Coronado’s Hamlet, starring Helen Mirren and Quentin Crisp. Robina created three brilliantly distinc…

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Sitting inside a café, a painter looks out the window to see his muse of artistic and spiritual inspiration walk past. From that moment on the painter is in pursuit to meet this figure in the physical realm.

Nightshift

Nightshift · 1981

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

Hamlet

The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.

Birth Rites

Birth Rites · 1977

MovieDocumentary

Birth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of physical and psychological support during labour, and the importance of touch in establishing bonds with newborns directly after birth.

Jigsaw

MovieDocumentary

Robina Rose examines the activities of a group of autistic children in a London school. Through the use of detailed shots, long sequences, color and sound, the filmmaker challenges viewers to delve into sensory and emotional perception from the head of an autistic person, where sounds play a more important role than language.

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Sitting inside a café, a painter looks out the window to see his muse of artistic and spiritual inspiration walk past. From that moment on the painter is in pursuit to meet this figure in the physical realm.

woman in café

Nightshift

Nightshift · 1981

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

Director

Hamlet

The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.

Cinematography

Birth Rites

Birth Rites · 1977

MovieDocumentary

Birth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of physical and psychological support during labour, and the importance of touch in establishing bonds with newborns directly after birth.

Director

Jigsaw

MovieDocumentary

Robina Rose examines the activities of a group of autistic children in a London school. Through the use of detailed shots, long sequences, color and sound, the filmmaker challenges viewers to delve into sensory and emotional perception from the head of an autistic person, where sounds play a more important role than language.

Director