new mexico

back in civilization…

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.

hatch again
(photo by Novelli)

art, event, film, made by me

my new film BEAUTY MACHINE premieres tonight (Friday, May 8)

Why haven’t I touched this blog all semester? Because I’ve been making a movie! It screens tonight, come check it out:


BEAUTY MACHINE
a short film by Rebecca Rojer

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

beauty machine

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.

art, film, friends, music

Neon Politik / i miss the desert

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.

art, cambridge, event, film, friends, made by me

Jan. 8: Come see my new film!

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!

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VES 150 Fall Screening
Thursday, January 8th
5:30pm
Carpenter Center Lecture Hall
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Rebecca R. Rojer