Directing
Robina Rose
Born — Died
1951-05-29 — 2025-01-26
Place of birth
London, England
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Born in 1951 to Danish and German parents, Robina grew up in Notting Hill, London. After leaving school, she became a film projectionist at the Arts Lab on Drury Lane, Covent Garden. She later attended the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1977, where she worked as a camera operator on Celestino Coronado’s Hamlet, starring Helen Mirren and Quentin Crisp. Robina created three brilliantly distinctive and compelling experimental films: Birth Rites (1977), documenting a friend's home birth; Jigsaw (1980), made in collaboration with a group of autistic children in London; and Nightshift (1981), featuring punk icon Jordan as a hotel receptionist at the Portobello Hotel in West London, where Rob…
Known for
6.7As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.
Nightshift
1981
NRSitting inside a café, a painter looks out the window to see his muse of artistic and spiritual inspiration walk past. From that moment on the painter is in pursuit to meet this figure in the physical realm.
Icon
2006
NRRobina Rose examines the activities of a group of autistic children in a London school. Through the use of detailed shots, long sequences, color and sound, the filmmaker challenges viewers to delve into sensory and emotional perception from the head of an autistic person, where sounds play a more important role than language.
Jigsaw
1980
NRBirth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of physical and psychological support during labour, and the importance of touch in establishing bonds with newborns directly after birth.
Birth Rites
1977
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.7As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.
Nightshift
1981
6.7As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.
Nightshift
1981
NRRobina Rose examines the activities of a group of autistic children in a London school. Through the use of detailed shots, long sequences, color and sound, the filmmaker challenges viewers to delve into sensory and emotional perception from the head of an autistic person, where sounds play a more important role than language.
Jigsaw
1980
NRBirth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of physical and psychological support during labour, and the importance of touch in establishing bonds with newborns directly after birth.
Birth Rites
1977