If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION

If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION

In a fusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture...

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Semiotics of the Kitchen

Semiotics of the Kitchen

Martha Rosler explores kitchen utensils by alphabet.

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A Budding Gourmet

A Budding Gourmet

‘A cook can’t just mix things up’, says a woman with a typical Brooklyn accent while the camera shows sophisticated images from food and travel...

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Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M

Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M

Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural —...

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Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)

Backyard Economy 2 (Diane Germain Mowing)

short of a woman mowing a lawn

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A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night

A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night

Artist Martha Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the...

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Losing: A Conversation with the Parents

Losing: A Conversation with the Parents

Treating the problem of anorexia nervosa from the parents' perspective, Rosler presents a mother and father speaking about the tragedy of their...

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Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained

Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained

Taking aim at the social standardization enforced particularly on women's bodies, Rosler critiques the politics of "objective" or scientific...

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Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band

Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band

A bouncy music-video burlesque shot in and around Santiago, Chile, entwines reminders of U.S. corporate presence and of past political terror, with...

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Pencicle of Praise

Pencicle of Praise

"Vice President Mike Pence eagerly plays cheerleader in chief for Donald Trump. In accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 2016, Pence...

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Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"

Martha Rosler Reads "Vogue"

In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its...

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Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure

Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure

Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Francisco's Mission District...

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Domination and the Everyday

Domination and the Everyday

In an inquiry into the relation between the corporation, the state and the family, Domination and the Everyday presents a fractured barrage of...

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Flower Fields

Flower Fields

"This short film was intended to create a colour field painting based on the flower fields that provided the living for so many, mostly...

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Backyard Economy 1

Backyard Economy 1

Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of...

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