Mark
La Rosa
b. March 3, 1966, Melbourne, Australia.
BIOGRAPHY:
Mark La Rosa studied painting and filmmaking 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.
He returned to full time study in the mid ‘90s to study illustration and subsequently began working as a freelance illustrator.
After a number of medium-length works, he completed his first feature Boundless in 2018.
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.
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)
Crunch! (2008, 6 mins, DV)
Bedroom Wall (2008, 8 mins, DV)
Rough Stuff (2008, 4 mins, DV)
Good Boy (2009, 11 mins, HD)
The Outing
The Outing (2011, 14 mins, RED)
Regolith (2015, 11 mins, 16mm/HD)
Boundless (2018, 70 mins, HD)
As
writer only:
After
School (1988, 20 mins, 16mm, directed by Bill Mousoulis)
FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS:
Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne Cinematheque
Experimenta
FRAMES Adelaide
Jumpcut Perth
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Panorama of Independent Film and Video (Athens, Greece)
Tiscali Short Film Award (Montecatini Terme, Italy)
Festival der Nationen (Ebensee, Austria)
Sydney Road Brunswick Short Film Competition (3rd Prize)
Electric Shorts
Sexy International Film Festival
59th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (Serbia)
Ljubljana International Short Film Festival (Slovenia)
Australian International Experimental Film Festival
and many more one-off screenings.
Working Week (1988, 34 mins)
Black Trade (1999, 46 mins)
The Captives (2004, 57 mins)
The Outing (2011, 14 mins)
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"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.
