Robina Rose

Biography

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...