The Envoy

By: Nathan C. Zierlein, Emmanuelle Bendheim & Klaudia Wiacek

Texas-bred Hunter student Evie Rosheger is tackling the world of film, and New York City, with her own personal flair. The 24-year-old Film Analysis and Criticism major is finishing up her senior year with the debut of two short films, “Another New World” and “Treplev is not a Seagull.” 

“Another New World,” a short film by Rosheger released on Dec. 15, 2024.

Growing up in Boerne, Texas, Rosheger wished for a place far away from the mundane constraints of her conservative town. After graduating high school, she relocated to Humboldt County on California’s Redwood Coast, a rural hippy community known for its cannabis culture and lush foliage.

Attending Cal Poly Humboldt University, she felt disconnected from her community and the outside world. Yearning for a more metropolitan-feel, Evie took a brief stint in Austin, Texas before turning in her cowboy boots for the howl of the concrete jungle.  

“It just felt always really inspiring to be here,” she says about living in New York City. “Especially with my interest in film.” 

In regards to her other interests, Evie favors Russian Soviet-era director Andre Tarkovsky, accrediting the Soviet film genre as a major inspiration in her research as a film scholar.  Describing Tarkovsky’s pictures as nihilistic, she believes that censorship in the Soviet times shaped how the films and stories were made.

“I’m really fascinated with contraband literature and people that were exiled for writing and filmmaking,” she says.

“Treplev is not a Seagull,” a short film by Rosheger released on Dec. 15, 2024.

Sitting crossed-leg on a stone bench outside of Hunter’s North building entrance, Rosheger expresses her gratitude to the professors who have helped her along the way. 

“They’ve encouraged me a lot to pursue academia and a higher degree of education” Rosheger says. “Which is something I didn’t feel at another university I attended.” 

Some of her favorite professors include an array of staff from the Film and Russian department including Ivone Margulies, Joe McElhaney and Yasha Klotts. Rosheger puts an emphasis on McElhaney and Klotts, stating that Klotts helped her with her research on Russian media.

 “At least in my experience at Hunter, the staff has been very forthcoming and has opened their arms in a lot of ways.”   

Seeking to further pursue her undergraduate degree in the city, Rosheger took a chance and applied to Hunter. After touring the 68th street. campus, she envisioned a future within the school’s film department. Since then, her world of knowledge expanded through the teachings of her professors, finding the staff at Hunter to be more than strong. Clad in a cherry red fur lined Southpole hoodie, faded lowrise jeans and black sneakers, Evie floats across the halls of Hunter North with an unmatched swagger. 

 “The faculty has been pretty life changing for me,” she says. 

For the past two years, Rosheger lived in a couple spots throughout Queens and Brooklyn, until finally settling into her older sister’s cozy apartment in Ridgewood, where she resides currently. Soaking up the comforting atmosphere of her intimate urban environment, Evie finds Ridgewood to be a dream.  

Rosheger can be spotted cruising the quaint streets of Ridgewood, lounging at the Myrtle Bar Pub or indulging in a good read at Topos Bookstore, a lively cafe on Woodward Avenue. When she’s not at school or with friends, Evie works as a barista at LAOBRA CAFÉ and enjoys doing research on Soviet literature and film. 

Rosheger credits her eclectic taste in film to her father who introduced her at a young age to Italian neorealist films, specifically Wim Wender’s 1987 picture “Wings of Desire.” 

However when it comes to Rosheger’s choice in music, she’s blazed an alternative path of her own. 

A starry eyed, 14-year old Rosheger could be seen in her room, blasting Yung Lean and exploring the esoteric black and white feed of the mid 2010s Tumblr scene. 

“In terms of my interests in music, a lot of that has stuck with me my entire life,” she said. “I was totally into Tumblr and Young Lean and that whole scene. I’m still the same with that.” 

Before coming to Hunter, Rosheger thought she might not continue with her higher education journey. Now, she’s determined to get her Ph.D. and pursue a masters in Film Studies. But despite graduating next spring, Rosheger isn’t done with CUNY yet, seeking out a program at the Graduate Center for Liberal Arts.

Rosheger says her ideal post-grad scenario is to continue living in New York City and become a professor at Hunter, or hold a job at the Anthology Film Archives, an archival theater dedicated to the screening of independent and avant-garde cinema on the Lower East Side. 

“I like the Hunter film program a lot and it would be really special to teach here,” she says.