Brian Rogers

Brian Rogers is a director, filmmaker, video and sound artist, and co-founder and artistic director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which supports the creation of theater, dance, music, and multimedia performances at its 5,000 square foot facility in LIC, Queens. Since 1997, Brian has conceived and/or directed numerous large scale films and performances at The Chocolate Factory and elsewhere, including Screamers (Abrons Arts Center, 2018 / Baryshnikov Arts Center, 2019),  Hot Box (September 2012, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival / January 2013, PS122’s COIL Festival / February 2013, EMPAC Center, Troy NY – supported by a MAP  Fund grant), the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (July 2010, Mount Tremper Arts / September 2011, The Chocolate Factory / January 2011, PS122’s COIL Festival), and the horror the horror (Movement Research Festival 2011, Abrons Arts Center / 2012). Brian recently composed the soundtrack for Shaun Iron & Lauren Petty’s film Standing By: Gatz Backstage, and he has collaborated as a sound and video artist with numerous experimental dance and theater artists in New York and elsewhere. In addition to his own work, Brian curates The Chocolate Factory’s Visiting Artist Program (now in its 15th year), which supports the work of more than 100 theater, dance, music, and multimedia artists each year.

Submissions

the theatre that I do not wish to imagine but wish to have

The theatre that must exist is ugly and unsatisfying, much of the time. It is defined by failed efforts and a bizarre-bordering-on-pathological determination to return to the scene of the crime (in this scenario, artists are the criminals; art is the bullet; guess who the victims are?).