Collecting Rooftops, shot on location in Albuquerque's now defunct historic Lobo
Theater, is a comedy about three college roommates living in the University of New
Mexico's infamous Student Ghetto. More than that, it’s about their tribulations
in dealing with squalid living conditions, crummy student jobs, and horrifying
emotionally scarring relationships with members of the fairer sex. It also serves
as a sort of epitaph for the quickly dying single screen movie house. All this,
fifty demolished computer monitors, a swash buckling laser sword fight, a special
appearance by Godzilla & the art of Zen Projection make this the indie comedy
not to miss.
Co-Directors Rob Kellar and Billy Garberina make their cinematic debut in Collecting
Rooftops. Based on the hugely successful stage play by Garberina, Rooftops
production was fraught with peril...The movie's main location, The Lobo Theater
closed no less than four times during production under as many managements and
for the last time late December 2000, when the old girl was finally gutted and
sealed. To finish production required...shall we say... guerilla tactics as a
final solution.
