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Rob Roth
Photographer
Video Artist
Director
Performer.New York City native Rob Roth is a prolific and influential presence in downtown art and culture. His work, both solo and collaborative, is non-stop, never predictable and immediately recognizable. His inexhaustible creative stamina and relentless pursuit of a defined mythology results in works of unprecedented originality.
Roth was born in Queens, the "artistic" son of a NYPD cop and an adoring mother, Catholic all around and feeling out of place. Art school was a natural destination for him, although his real education was had in the still dicey streets and underground nightclubs of Manhattan at the end of the 1980s. His best tool is his fertile imagination. In the mid 1990s he co-founded Click + Drag, the infamous Saturday night at the legendary nightclub Mother, run by nightlife royalty Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell. Drawing the smartest and most interesting people in New York, Click + Drag boiled over with inspired happenings where Roth combined photography, design, performance and video installation in ways never seen before. Without realizing he was doing so at the time, he defined the aesthetic of an era. His inimitable work caught the eye of Chris Stein and Deborah Harry of Blondie, who hired him to create the art and packaging for their next two CDs as well as video installations for their international tours. Roth has worked constantly since the closing of Mother in 2001, collaborating with such artists as Theo Kogan (Lunachicks) Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb), Caden Manson/Big Art Group, Choreographer Richard Move and acclaimed performance artist Julie Tolentino. His video animations and large-scale projections are atmospherically rich and elegant. As a performer he has a gift for deadpan humor and physical comedy, often involving trick costumes and unexpected gimmicks. In this vein he continues to work closely with Deborah Harry on her solo projects around the world as both a director and performer, even landing a cameo role with her on an episode of the British television comedy AbFab. His current work in progress is Screen Test, a live installation/performance with Theo Kogan that made its debut at PS 122 in April 2005.Rob has been featured in Time Out, Interview, Step and The Village Voice
• Interview on PS1Radio
• Interview on rip-her-to-shreds.com
NEWS
3.28.08
CITY Magazine has a small piece on me this month.
3.28.08
Screen Test on the cover of LiveDesign Magazine
2.13.08
Recent press for Screen Test
1.27.08
New photos posted of Screen Test from it's run at Abrons Art Center January 12th and 13th.
12.11.07
To help with funding for Screen Test this coming January, I am appealing to you, my community of appreciative supporters, to help us. I am selling 4 limited edition signed prints of my original portrait of Theo Kogan . In addition to helping me spread the word about the sale of these special images, I wanted to invite you all out to the Rapture Café (200 Ave. A) on December 18th at 7pm (also my birthday), where one of the prints will be on display, for an intimate gathering of friends and Screen Test cast members. Please join us if you can, and please forward this to anyone you feel might be interested in purchasing one of these limited edition prints. The prints can be purchased directly at Rapture Café or on this site at the link below.
www.rob-roth.com/works/prints.htm
12.6.07
Screen Test - January 12th and 13th 2007
Screen Test will be making a special run at the Abrons Arts Center on January 12th and 13th at 8:30 as part of the Performance Space 122 COIL Festival, an annual winter festival of theatre, dance, new music and multi-media.
Tickets can be found at www.theatermania.comAbrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street at Pitt St
New York , NY 10002
9.4.07
This is a show I'm creating with Caden Manson , Theo Kogan, Sean Pierce and Jemma Nelson. We are premiering it in Rome this week.
CINEMA FURY "THE SLEEP"
Kollantino Underground
ROME SEPT. 8 & 9, 2007
Via Georges Sorel, 10
00177 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39 33 9730 1465Cinema Fury: THE SLEEP
reconfigures MP Shiel's manuscript "The Purple Cloud" with captured and recorded image sequences to critique the contemporary cultural landscape and environmental issues. In this genre classic written in 1901, an ambitious adventurer sets off to the undiscovered North Pole for fame and wealth. But as his expedition turns violent, a far greater tragedy occurs in the world he leaves behind. When he emerges from his hollow triumph to this new order, he must confront a dead world and a bleak new existence for the remainder of his life. Shiel's manuscript, as opposed to other "last man" stories, is uniquely probing, stark, haunting and suffused with sadness and rage. From the unrelenting bleakness and loneliness of the original manuscript, Cinema Fury extrapolates the crisis of contemporary survival, merging Shiel's story with current accounts of climate change, and jettisoning the information accumulation of a digital society to investigate a forced primitivism and a crisis of being. -------------------------------------------------------------8.16.07
Debbie Harry and I were interviewed for LOGO Channels , New Now Next show.
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6.29.07
I just directed the music video for Deborah Harry's "Two Times Blue" off the new solo CD "Necessary Evil".
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4.10.07
I am currently designing the opening titles for the new
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Neil Jordan/Jodie Foster film, "The Brave One".
The Film will premiere Sept 14th
El Cantante is out Aug 1st. I was the Visual Effects Designer.
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Here is an early review that mentions my subtitles design. Review here
New photos of Screen Test here
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World PremierePerformance Space 122
November 28th - December 3rd Tuesday - Sunday 8:00 p.m. With Thursday - Saturday Late Shows at 10:30 p.m. $20($10 Members)
150 First Ave. at E. 9th St.
NYC 10009
General Information: 212-477-5288In Screen Test rock show collides with video installation. Conceived and directed by Rob Roth with Theo Kogan and her band "Theo and the Skyscrapers", the performance blends haunting romantic imagery and modern apocalyptic paranoia with the gritty sensibility of underground NYC.
Theo and the Skyscrapers premiere a slew of original songs written specifically for this show. The music flows from melodic to assaulting while lyrically echoing themes of loneliness and longing, playing out on a 1940s Hollywood soundstage. Anger and humor combine to ask: What is artificial? What is real? and What role does fantasy play in survival?
Text by Romy Ashby and Rob Roth Costume Design: Todd Thomas
Music Director: Sean Pierce Choreography: Vangeline
Currently working on the movie "El Cantante" as Director of Animation, the new Jennifer Lopez/Marc Anthony Biopic of Hector Lavoe
Big Art Groups "Dead Set" has started production in Berlin. I will be returning to Berlin to finish video and animation. The show will open at the Hebel Theater, Berlin on Sept 28th.
Theo and the Skyscrapers "Broken Girl" debuts on Logo Channels "New Now Next" music video program.
4.4.06 - Video premiere this Thursday @ Monkeytown, Willamsburg
For Immediate Release / Contact: Earl Dax
Rob Roth-directed Theo Kogan Video "Broken Girl" Premieres at LAUNCH PARTY for FISHBOWL CABARET at MONKEY TOWN Deejays, Preview Performances and Q Me Con Warm-up
Thursday, April 6
8:00 PM - 2:00 AM MONKEY TOWN, 68 North 3rd St (L Train to Bedford) $5.00 cover Select liquor open bar from 8:00 to 9:00 PM"As much of Williamsburg steadily marches on toward its fate of high-rises and higher rents, it is heartening to see a good-humored arty project like Monkey Town put down roots..." - New York Times
limited edition prints 
the brave one 
el cantante
whitney biennial
screen test
theo and the skyscrapers
blondie / debbie harry
kiki and herb
big art group
julie tolentino
richard move
click + drag 
