I took a month off from the computer and went to New Mexico to get dirty and eat green chilies. Now I’m home, so if you called or emailed while I was gone I’ll be getting back to you shortly. I’ve got about 6 months backlog of blog posts to get through before school starts, so expect lots of miscellaneous stuff up here over the next two weeks.
(photo by Novelli)
Two new additions to the Beauty Machine site:
BEAUTY MACHINE, the short film I’ve spent the past semester+ working on, is now online for your viewing pleasure:
watch in HD
official site: http://rrrojer.net/beautymachine
Please help spread the word!
I finally got around to uploading PRE-APOCALYPSE, the short I made this fall. My new film BEAUTY MACHINE is still lingering in post-production, but it should be up soon too. Enjoy!
Why haven’t I touched this blog all semester? Because I’ve been making a movie! It screens tonight, come check it out:
premieres at the
VES FILM & VIDEO STUDENT SCREENINGS
Friday, May 8 at 7 p.m.
CCVA Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center (Harvard Film Archive)
24 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
NEAL (Majed Sayess), a brilliant inventor, and LINDA (Mary
Kommjian), a former yoga instructor, run the Beauty Enlightenment
Program, a religious movement promising physical perfection through
spiritual awareness (and perhaps a little technological help). But when
Neal discovers he is no longer attracted to the “enlightened” women
he creates, he starts to question his organization and becomes obsessed
with MICHELLE (Danielle Muehlenbein), a new recruit who is
somehow different from the other followers. When Linda finds out she
is furious and vows to usher Michelle into enlightenment at any cost.
Tickets are free but required. They will be distributed outside the Lecture Hall beginning at 6:00 p.m.
BEAUTY MACHINE is the first film of the program so please arrive on time.
Cameron‘s band The Franks has a new video out and it looks great, sounds great. Very impressive and lots of fun. They sure are stylish over there … something about watching The Doom Generation* this weekend and then seeing this video, combined with all the snow outside, is giving me some LA envy like I haven’t felt since I first read Weetzie Bat.
The Franks: Neon Politik from The Franks.
* I think Ché put it best – “The Repoman of the 90s” … definitely nsfw.
My new short, Pre-Apocalypse, is screening next week along with the other projects from my fiction film class. These films are pretty rough technically– each filmed in one day on 16mm, edited by hand on the Steenbeck, single track audio, no sound mix, no titles, some camera problems– but represent a lot of talent and hard work. I’ll be posting a d.i.y. digital transfer of my film up here soon, but I want to encourage everyone to come out and see it on the big screen because the film projection looks so much better. Hope to see you there!
VES 150 Fall Screening
Thursday, January 8th
5:30pm
Carpenter Center Lecture Hall
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This student piece has everything I love in cartoons and folk songs. It’s adorable and grotesque, in the tradition of both Betty Boop and Ren & Stimpy. Moral but not preachy, it makes me really happy.
Story from North America by Kirsten Lepore and Garrett Davis.
[via Paul]
Casting Call for VES 150: Fiction Filmmaking
Saturday, January 10, 2009
10am – 6pm
Sever Hall, Room 416
Harvard University
Audition for 6 films at once! My film class, VES150, is holding a class-wide audition for our spring films. Slots are almost full so don’t wait to sign up.
My friends Jon and David, and their friend Carson, are Tingle Fingers, an in-house design + screenprinting operation in Brooklyn. Their stuff looks really good– gorgeous designs and professional quality printing– but is made in the same loving d.i.y. way as when Jon was a jersey hardcore kid.
Their rates are reasonable so hire them or show them some love on facebook and myspace.
