ARTIST + DIRECTOR
WORKS
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SoundstageDIRECTOR / PERFORMER -
FACE ITCREATIVE DIRECTOR -
BLONDIE: VIVIR EN LA HABANADirector -
Craig's DreamDirector + Performer -
Rihanna / Samsung : AntidiaryCreative Director -
BLONDIECREATIVE DIRECTOR -
Night Paving – The Aural History of Jackie 60 and MotherDirector -
Screen TestDirector -
Click + DragCreative Director -
Coach: FW 2014 Leather BagsDirector -
The Black PartyCreative Director -
The Mystery of ClaywomanDirector + Performer -
Lady Gaga : PetgaCharacter Design -
Penny Dreadful : StitchedDirector -
Coach: Hugo GuinnessDirector -
David Bowie: Life on Mars RevisitedArt Director + Animator -
Junkie DoctorsDirector -
Narcissister: This MasqueradeDirector -
Ascension No. 1Director -
Degrees of FreedomDirector
Press
Debbie Harry remembers the NYC rockers’ first ever Cuba gigs – and the new film that documents them LINK TO ARTICLE
When Blondie released their 11th album in May of this year, we saw the band call on very hot for 2k17 songwriters like Dev Hynes and Charli XCX to contribute, but fans were also treated to a more heritage gift in the form of Doom Or Destiny.
Blondie’s new music video for its song “Doom or Destiny” is a great example. It features Debbie Harry and Joan Jett as cunt mug-carrying anchors for news of the “impending apocalypse”. Described by Debbie Harry as, “The most openly political video Blondie has ever done,”
12. Blondie, “Doom or Destiny”
How fitting in a year of political unrest and #MeToo that Debbie Harry has joined forces with fellow female badass Joan Jett for this amusing but apocalyptic news broadcast.
About
Rob Roth:
Rob Roth is a multidisciplinary artist and director based in New York City, and received his BFA from Pratt Institute. Roth has continually combined a variety of media in his distinctive works of art–using theater, film, audio, and performance–to create the richly textured work showcased at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art, PS122, Abrons Art Center, Here Arts, Museum of Arts and Design, Deitch Projects, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
Roth’s poetic visual language springs from his initial training as a painter. As an artist and believer in theater as ritual, he creates lyrical and mysterious works within a deconstructed narrative. His explorations of cinematic language and form within live performance and installation, result in creations of haunting imagery influenced by renaissance painting, classic Hollywood films, and mystical chemistry, that combined, plumb the depths of eroticism, sexuality and death.
In 2018 Rob premiered the highly praised haunting theater piece, Soundstage, featuring actor Rebecca Hall which the New York Times described as “deftly evokes the fleeting transition from wakefulness to dreaming”. Roth also directed the music video “Doom or Destiny” by Blondie featuring Joan Jett which appeared on several “Best of 2017” lists as well as performing in Atlas Obscura’s site specific Into the Veil event at Green-Wood Cemetery. Additionally Roth also just finished creative direction for Debbie Harry’s long awaited memoir ‘Face It’ becoming an instant New York Times bestseller.
For more info visit Wikipedia / IMDB
Text by Romy Ashby
Photo by Paula Court