William Klein, Leos Carax, Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Miranda July, Alan Clarke, Kenneth Anger, RW Fassbinder, Penelope Spheeris, Spike Jonze, Abel Ferrara, John Cassavetes, Haskell Wexler, Barbara Kopple, Bruce Weber, Jim Jarmusch, Andy Warhol, Park Chanwook, Albert Maysles...
Awards
Jury Award - Documentary, Cinevegas 2008, Documentary Achievement Award, Newport Beach Film Festival, 2008
Festivals
SXSW, Cinevegas
Professional Affiliations
The Directors Bureau
Aaron Rose's Interests
General
Those who march to their own drum.
Music
Money Mark, The Sads (my band!) myspace.com/ilovethesads, everything on Teenage Teardrops!!
Movies
Lets Get Lost, Funeral Parade of Roses, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Scum, San Soleil, Boy Meets Girl, Les Mepris, You and Me and Everyone We Know, Thumbsucker, Gummo, Mister Lonely, Suburbia, Scorpio Rising, Decline of Western Civilization...
Television
Don't own one!
Books
ANP Quarterly!! www.rvcaanpq.com
Heroes
The BL Production Team!! Jon Barlow (producer), Lenny Mesina (editor), Money Mark (composer) Fernando Villena (supervising editor), Josh Leonard (co-director), Rich Lim (producer), Jared Moshe (producer), Pearl Kan (everything! the real hero), Ravi Anne (exec producer) and everyone at Sidetrack Films!
Aaron Rose is a film director, producer, artist, musician, writer, and curator currently living in Los Angeles. In the 1990s, he worked for MTV Networks producing/directing on-air promos with contemporary artists and indie-directors as well as producing numerous short films. His first feature documentary film, Beautiful Losers, premiered at the 2008 South By Southwest (SxSW) Film Festival. The film will be released internationally in theatres during the summer of 2008.
ABOUT BEAUTIFUL LOSERS: In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. Starring a selection of artists (Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Harmony Korine, Margaret Kilgallen, Geoff McFetridge, Stephen Powers, Chris Johanson and more...) who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind this movement. However, rather than focusing exclusively on broad historical facts, the film focuses on the telling of personal stories...speaking to themes of what happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today's youth.
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Who I'd like to meet: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Jack Kerouac
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