ELEVATOR

An Immersive 3-Channel Video Installation

Writer/Director: Mia Rovegno | Conceptual Artist: Tahir Karmali | Dramaturg: Liz Thys
Featuring: Daniel K. Isaac, Starr Busby, Ben Beckley

A tech start-up company called ThoughtThought is pitching a “human upgrade” software suite product to you. The pitch escalates into a surreal visual and sonic choral cacophony unveiling the lens of the white cis male dominating the tech world, whose performative optics claim client-facing diversity and inclusion. ELEVATOR is an immersive video installation deconstructing the elevator pitch, a capitalist ritual that promotes the morphing of personhood and product.

In 2020, a pandemic-friendly virtual video iteration was developed through the ONEBRIClab Performing Arts Residency and presented by BRIC on Bricbrooklyn YouTube. Through the support of The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, ELEVATOR premiered in the 2023 Under The Radar Festival.

Full Disclosure

A debut short film written & directed by Mia Rovegno
Featuring Charise Greene & Ryan Pater

A seemingly benign date catapults forward as two strangers travel the span of a relationship inside one stream-of-consciousness conversation. The revelation of a few harmless quirks quickly accelerates down a navel gazing hole so deep, they stop being on their best behavior. Things get real as they disclose their deepest, darkest secrets of American privilege, existential despair and moral depravity.

An absurdist roller coaster ride set against a revolving door of NYC backdrops, Full Disclosure lends a slice of life love-letter-to-NYC levity to the contradictions that define urban identity in an age of information overload and capitalist consumption.