Mark La Rosa
b. March 3, 1966, Melbourne, Australia.

BIOGRAPHY:   Mark La Rosa studied painting and film-making at Phillip Institute of Technology in the mid ‘80s. He later joined the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group and made several experimental and narrative films both on his own and in collaboration.

Since then he has completed three 16mm narrative films of short to medium length.

He works as a freelance illustrator.

	Working Week

CRITICAL OVERVIEW:   As I am not a critic, I feel comfortable describing my work only in broad terms.

The non-narrative films use playful juxtapositions of sound and image to create impressions of my life at and away from the family home. The narrative films portray deception, betrayal and loss among characters living on the criminal fringe.

The mood is often melancholy and the style is formally restrained.

Mark La Rosa, April 2003

See also "La Rosa, At Last" by Michael Filippidis,
and "Follow the Leader" by Jake Wilson.

	Café Lobos

FILMOGRAPHY:

Private Island (1987, 6 mins, Super 8)

Working Week (1988, 34 mins, Super 8)

Darling for a Day (1989, 32 mins, Super 8)

Ride (1989, 8 mins, Super 8)

Small Blue Thing (1990, 10 mins, Super 8)

	Black Trade

Bridget and the Ten Thousand Things (1991, 6 mins, Super 8)

Paper Chains (1992, 33 mins, 16mm, co-directed with Richard Tuohy)

Untitled (1993, 6 mins, Super 8)

Summer Slide (1994, 6 mins, Super 8)

Café Lobos (1995, 21 mins, 16mm)

Black Trade (1999, 46 mins, 16mm)

	Woodlands

The Captives (2004, 57 mins, video)

3 a.m. (2007, 3 mins, video)

Woodlands (2007, 3 mins, video)

Sticks and Stones (2007, 6 mins, video)

Tracery (2007, 5 mins, video)

Arid Jazz (2007, 3 mins, video)

Outcrop (2007, 4 mins, video)

	Arid Jazz

Autumn Splash (2007, 3 mins, video)

Bolts for Volts (2007, 11 mins, video)

looking up Sydney Road (2007, 9 mins, video)

Bridge (2007, 3 mins, video)

As writer only:

After School (1988, 20 mins, 16mm, directed by Bill Mousoulis)

"Working Week" by David Cox, Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Newsletter, No. 34, March 1989.

"An Angle on Film / Mark La Rosa’s Working Week & Darling for a Day" by Heinz Boeck, Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Newsletter, No. 39, August 1989.

"La Rosa, At Last" by Michael Filippidis, Melbourne Super 8 Group Newsletter, No. 69, May 1992.

"Subtle Strokes from the underground" by Rolando Caputo, RealTime, Issue 64, Dec 2004 - Jan 2005.

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