White Room
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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Patricia Rozema. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In person: Director Patricia Rozema
Considered part of the informally defined collection of independent filmmakers to make up the Toronto New Wave in the 1980s and early 1990s, filmmaker, television director, artist and educator Patricia Rozema (b. 1958) found breakout success at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival when her first feature, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, nabbed the Prix de la Jeunesse in the Director’s Fortnight section, making it the first English-language Canadian film in the festival’s 40-year history to win an award. Rozema’s subsequent career, which has encompassed narrative features, shorts, documentaries and episodes of hit television series as both director and writer, maintains her first feature’s lighthearted irreverence, stylistic bravado, eye for magical realism and distinctly queer sensibility. Currently inspiring the next generation of filmmakers as an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Rozema joins the Academy Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive for a weekend-long trip through her playful outlook on artmaking.
White Room (1990)
Bursting with charisma, incredible costumes and a youthful energy, White Room is a modern fairy tale and deeply personal film that tackles obsession, passion, and celebrity culture through a multitude of genres. Norman is a naive writer who stumbles upon a terrible incident involving a famous singer, wherein a series of events has him falling for a woman that has an unknown connection to the singer, while dealing with his own guilt of what he has seen. “White Room is a semi-unknown masterpiece … A queer-coded character drama about sensitivity, identity, and idealism, its deeply moving arc needs to be more widely seen” (Grant Phipps, Tone Madison).
DCP, color, 110 min. Director: Patricia Rozema. Writer: Patricia Rozema. With: Kate Nelligan, Maurice Godin, Margot Kidder.
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