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Tales from Queer Horror #2! Marianne Williamson (Carla Rossi) faces Mary Lou Maloney (Valerie DeVille), Carrie White (Rita Lynn), and Joe Biden in the Great Prom Queen Debate, before a screening of Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2.

Get a sneak(er wave) peek at Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water, in which Portland's premier drag clown, Carla Rossi, finds herself trapped on a rock in the ocean as the water level rises—all while Anthony and their team try to find the will to work amid a surging new COVID variant.

Hosted by Carla Rossi, the new webseries TALES FROM QUEER HORROR presents our drag & burlesque preshow acts from QUEER HORROR at the historic Hollywood Theatre. This debut episode, featuring our Halloween night 2019 tribute to horror hostesses before a screening of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, stars Wanda Bones, Rummy Rose, and Hai Fleisch. New episodes coming this November and December!

Portland's premier drag clown channels Kimberly Guilfoyle and then rightfully explodes.

A German auteur narrates a day in the life of Portland's premier drag clown.

Queer Horror is a bimonthly festival of genre works by queer artists, performers, and filmmakers, programmed and hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi.

Follow Carla Rossi, an immortal trickster and your unofficial tour guide through "Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer" at the Seattle Art Museum. Gibson’s contemporary art combines powwow, pop culture, and punching bags to explore what modernity means within Indigenous cultures. Carla Rossi combines drag, clowning, and entitlement to address complacency, and the confusion of "mixed" identities. See through Carla’s eyes when you visit “Like a Hammer.”

ARTIST TALKS feature artists from a range of disciplines in the galleries for lively conversations about works of art on view at the Museum and how they relate to their own practices. Anthony Hudson (Grand Ronde) is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and filmmaker perhaps best known as Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi.
Anthony Hudson / Carla RossI LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance June 17-19, 2016 PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY utilizes song, drag, and video to put a queer spin on my ancestral traditional storytelling, as I ask what it means for a mixed-race person to grow up seeing their heritage filtered through media belonging to white normative culture.
Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi performs a publicly-mandated live ASMR routine during the debut CLAPTRAP: A Queered Variety Show. Filmed live at Floyd's Coffee on February 17, 2018.
Crypticon 2018: Carla Rossi's Tribute to the Cult Film ~ 'Sleepaway Camp'
Portland drag legend Carla Rossi joins host Nick Sahoyah in this episode of the high-larious web series about art, video games, and weed to play Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and answer the age-old question: Does a game still count as family friendly if the family in it are murderous psychopaths?
CARLA ROSSI TIED US UP AND TOOK OVER OUR SHOW!

Carla Rossi joins to talk about Drag and all its parts.

Carla Rossi keeps having nightmares of a woman with knives for fingers.

 
Portland's premier drag clown fondly remembers an artist residency with the simple people of Arizona. Taken from CARLA ROSSI SINGS THE END OF THE WORLD, recorded live at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, OR on November 20, 2014. This production was funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Portland's premier drag clown issues a public apology after a racist party poster melts the Internet. Guest starring Christopher Sein as the hand of reason. Special thanks to Weird-Fiction, Eric Sellers, Christopher Sein, Michael Shaw Talley, and Samuel Thomas for their help creating this newest gospel of Rossianity!

PCPSA | 2014 | 3:48

 

Carla Rossi introduces Kaj-anne Pepper & Chanticleer Tru's post-realness drag ball CRITICAL MASCARA, resorting to identity theft and shameless self-promotion. Originally screened at CRITICAL MASCARA on September 14, 2013 at the The Works at Con-Way as part of PICA's 2013 Time Based Art festival in Portland, OR.

Carla Rossi Introduces Critical Mascara at TBA:13 | 2013 | 1:49

 

Uncommon lipsync of Cher's Half-Breed by singular trifecta Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi / Pocahunty. I do not claim to own Half-Breed (1973, Cher / MCA; writers: Al Capps, Mary Dean) or the rights to the song, which is included for artistic & educational purposes.

Half-Breed (Uncommon Lipsync) | 2012 | 2:45

 

The DECEPTiCONS are Portland's most prestigious performance group that hasn't done a show yet. This is their first music video. They are so new media that they went BACK IN TIME to make this hit summer jam for PRIDE. The DECEPTiCONS are Kaj-anne Pepper, Carla Rossi, Jen "The Body Hackworth, and Cabiria Jones.

Sausage Party | 2012 | 3:41

The DECEPTiCONS' first music video. Song by Cabiria Jones featuring Kaj-anne Pepper and Carla Rossi. Choreography by Pepper and Jen "The Body" Hackworth.

 

Portland's Carla Rossi finally gives in to the public's demands that she audition for reality TV.

Carla Rossi's "Hoarders" Audition Tape | 2012 | 2:59

 

In which Portland's own Carla Rossi shares her best-kept health & fitness secrets with you... or she tries. Guest starring Kaj-anne Pepper, Melody Awesomazing, and Little Tommy Bang Bang! Music by Rob Loucks (Orographic). Originally premiered at STORE Gallery in March, 2012.

The Carla Rossi Workout | 2012 | 7:25

 

Find yourself struggling to retain political consciousness? Scared to speak your mind despite good intentions? Lost your flow chart of who's allowed to say what words? Carla Rossi's here to educate you on the proper care and maintenance of a PC mindset! Of course Carla never knows what she's talking about, so she's perfect for the job.

PCPSA | 2012 | 3:10

 

"The Carla Rossi Experience, or: Living with the Monster" utilizes a mash-up of projection, televisions, video media, mirrors, and drag implements to convey the sense of what it is to share my headspace with Carla Rossi. In the words of Freddy Krueger, "Welcome to primetime, bitch."

The Carla Rossi Experience (Installation Documentation) | 2012 | 1:49

 

An intended homage to Ryan Trecartin instead became a document of artists searching for realness through artifice and appropriation. Chronicling the breakdown of both the actors and their characters in the midst of the creative process, these fluctuations of identity and intent examine persona as a performative ritual.

The Quest for Sincerity | 2011 | 5:45

 

Carla Rossi sets out to interview Kaj-anne Pepper about her new piece GENDERFANTASY but Clarissa keeps interfering. On-stage documentation from Kaj-anne Pepper and Anthony Hudson's collaborative performance piece; originally staged at the 9th Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival at Performance Works NW on October 9th, 2011 in Portland, OR.

Are We Drag Queens? (Performance Documentation) | 2011 | 5:45

Performance with Kaj-anne Pepper at the 9th Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival (Performance Works NW).

 

Former child star turned art sensation Jerick Hoffer returns to his childhood home, reflecting on the struggle of celebrity, the importance of community, and returning to one's roots.

Art Star: The Life of Jerick Hoffer | 2010 | 8:23

 

The full-length cut of the award-winning public service announcement for Oregon Public Health, filtered through the lens of a zombie epidemic.

Oregon Public Health & Zombies (Director's Cut) | 2010 | 1:51

Grand Prize Winner for the Northwest Health Foundation's PSA Video Contest.