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Mitchell Rose |
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Modern Daydreams 1: Deere John |
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Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell Rose was a New York-based choreographer specializing in comedic work. Eventually he was drawn more to visual media and chose to become a filmmaker, entering The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. Since AFI, his films have won 49 film festival awards and are screened around the world on television and in locations as diverse as the Getty Museum and the CBS JumboVision in Times Square.
For several years co-artistic director of BodyVox dance company, Ashley Roland, had been encouraging Rose to create a film of a dying swan solo on a John Deere excavator. A NIPAD fellowship provided the perfect opportunity for this project. Rose felt that rather than it be a solo, exploring the various movement possibilities of the machine, it would be far more interesting to make it a duet. Creating an archetypal story of longing would have universal appeal and be a fundamentally richer exploration. And thus Deere John was created. |
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