It’s hard to believe it, but the time has come. Summer is winding down, and with the end of summer comes closing night of the Rooftop Films Summer series. This year, they’ve saved some of the best for last, with razor sharp short films all about endings. Closing night will be this Friday, August 20th [...]

This week at Rooftop, they are continuing thier partnership with Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival. In May, Rooftop Films travelled north, co-presenting a series of rooftop screenings in Toronto. This Friday and Saturday, they team up yet again, this time bringing two incredible documentaries previously screened in Toronto to the roofs of New York. Filmmakers Lixin [...]

Chris Fonesca began filming Revoked 2, his fixed freestyle film, while the crew was in New York for the Bicycle Film Festival a couple months ago. As it turns out there was more partying that went on than riding, so he decided to use the footage for a 15 minute online edit.
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This week Rooftop Films has two great shows, one a program of short films about doomed love, the other a free screening about the life of tattooing legend Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins. As usual, there will be live music before the films and after parties after both shows. Details below.

DOOMED LOVE AND THE DEVILLES
Spectacularly failing [...]

It seems to be a trend now that the early pillars of indie rock are picking up the axes and making things happen once again. That holds true for Versus – who after about 10 years of silence will release their latest album On the One’s and Threes. We’ll let you be the judge who [...]

STACKED #9 is taking on THE WHITE RABBIT w/ DJ Epidemic (AZ)!!!
This week, the scallywags behind Stacked #1-8 will be jumping ship and setting sail for the White Rabbit on East Houston. You have no doubt walked by it a million times and apparently they have a freshly tuned sound system as well, which is [...]

Rooftop has an event coming up this week that you dont want to miss: for one night only Professor Nieto will perform one of his infamous experiments live at this Thursday’s Rooftop Films show!

During his illustrious career as the world’s first mad scientist filmmaker, the Professor has documented the education of filmmaking monkeys, taught Brazilian [...]

Last year, Future Cinema in association with Warp Films presented a documentary film called All Tomorrow’s Parties, directed by All Tomorrow’s People and Jonathan Caouette. The film documents the history of the long running All Tomorrow’s Parties Music Festival, which is often described as a “post-punk DIY bricolage.” The film was created by both fans [...]