biography

Award-winning artist and filmmaker Tal Rosner's work has been screened across the world and won him a BAFTA award for his title sequence for
Channel 4's series Skins (2008). He made his name with radical interpretations of musical compositions. His work has been described as ‘hypnotic’ and ‘strikingly different’, with his unique visual eye earning him the label of ‘choreographer of the moving image’.

Since 2005 he has been collaborating with musicians, combining multiple layers of sound and visuals to create a new language of classical/contemporary music videos. This includes an extensive collaboration with Katia and Marielle Labèque on Stravinsky and Debussy's two piano music; a live performance of Nancarrow's Player Piano Studies (Barbican Festival 2007 and Serpentine Summer Pavilion 2008); and In Seven Days, Piano Concerto with Moving Image* (2008), composed by Thomas Adès and commissioned by The Southbank Centre in London and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His new video for Esa-Pekka Salonen's Lachen Verlernt (2009) with violinist Jennifer Koh, will be premiered in Oberlin in October and will be also followed by a US tour throughout 2010/11.

His independent experimental films Doppelganger (2005) and Without You (2008) have been screened at prestigious film festivals and venues, including Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, Tribeca (NYC), Onedotzero and Tate Modern in London. Commissioned by Animate Projects for Channel 4 and Arts Council England, Without You has earned him critical acclaim and gained a wide following since its appearance, as well as TV broadcasts in the UK and France/Canal +. A retrospective was dedicated for his work at the Forum des Images in Paris, as part of the Nemo Festival in April 2009 and he is currently working on a multi-channel video installation for the Tenderpixel Gallery in London, to be exhibited in February 2010.

* Following its UK and US premieres at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Disney Hall in LA, In Seven Days will begin a three year world-wide tour this autumn, including the Zurich Tonhalle and Stockholm Konserthus (2009), and the New York Philharmonic, Cologne, Lisbon and Melbourne Festival (2010/11).