Mail Order

(short film, 2019, 17:32 min, edition of 4)

Mail Order is a meditation on femininity and womanhood in the context of the relationship with men. ‘Lady’ is followed through a series of vignettes that the artist performs with her

male mannequins. Everything from falling in love to getting married and having a baby are all scenes in this fabricated tongue-in-cheek world of objects and objectifiers.

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The Woman with a Crown

(two channel short film, 2014, 4 min, edition of 4)

The two-channel short film The Woman with a Crown is based on Princess Diana’s 1995 televised interview in which Diana candidly and heartbreakingly describes the end of her

marriage and her denigration by the royal family. Watching this fairytale gone wrong, the audience slowly realizes that Rothen is playing four characters all speaking Diana’s words.

There is a blonde sex worker from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, a sullen woman based on Frances Farmer, a pimple-faced farm worker, and Diana herself.

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Murder Me Tomorrow

(short film, 2014, 3 min)

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Desert Of June

(short film, 2014, 15 min)

Desert Of June is a one woman western. A fragment of a woman's journey in which her dreams, illusions and fears collide with nature. June speaks of her perfect life, her wonderful

husband and their young son Joey but she appears disheveled and distraught. Where she came from and where she's going is not obvious. Although confused, she fights the elements,

her own expectations and loneliness. Stuck in metaphysical surroundings that underline her experiences as existential, June's sentiments become more and more delusional. In the end

her instinct to correspond to the environment saves her from madness. A lone portrayal against the backdrop of Monument Valley, Desert Of June combines elements from western

cinema and projects them onto a female heroine.

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