faculty profile

Henry S. Rosenthal is one of America's most prolific producers of visionary independent films, perhaps best known for the highly-acclaimed The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Other production credits include “His Eye is on the Sparrow” and “Easter Morning” by Bruce Conner and Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Rosenthal is also widely known as Hank Rank, drummer of CRIME, the first punk band on the West Coast, and lead ukulele player in the pseudo jug band, The Poontang Wranglers. Based in San Francisco, he is an avid collector of fine art, souvenir pennants, and two-headed calves. He is currently finishing a film about Jeff Koons, and spends a lot of time on Mars as the Commander of a space mission simulator at space center in Oakland.