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Roee Rosen (b. 1963) is an Israeli-American artist, filmmaker, and writer. He is known for his multilayered and provocative work which often challenges the divides between history and the present, documentary and fiction, politics and erotics. Rosen dedicated years to his fictive feminine persona, the Jewish-Belgian Surrealist painter and pornographer Justine Frank, a project that entailed fabricating her entire oeuvre as a book and a short film, Two Women and a Man (2005). In 2010 Rosen created two films. Hilarious and Out, in which a BDSM session becomes a political exorcism. Out premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Orizzonti award for best medium-length film. The film went on the win numerous awards, including a nomination for the European Film Awards. Rosen’s film The Dust Channel was coproduced by documenta 14, where it was exhibited along with two historical text and image installations: The Blind Merchant and Live and Die as Eva Braun. Several retrospectives of Rosen’s films were held, among them at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2012), La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival (2013), and FICUNAM festival, Mexico City (2018). In 2018 an expansive solo exhibition of his work was held at Centre Pompidou, Paris, entitled Histoires dans le pénombre. The exhibition also included a full film survey. Rosen’s two latest books are Live and Die as Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories (2017), and Desire and Dust (2019), both published by Sternberg Press. He is currently working on a book on illness in the guise of coloring pages titled Lucy is Sick, a part of which was published by Steirischer Herbst (2020). Rosen’s most recent film is a musical comedy combining fiction, animation, and documentary titled Kafka for Kids, and part of the official selection for the Tiger competition in the 2022 edition of the Rotterdam Film Festival. His upcoming solo shows are scheduled to open in 2022 at 1646, the Hague, and at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Rosen is a professor at Ha’Midrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College in Israel.
