'Roveses'

Feature Film

-- a live space opera

-- a short film 

-- a theatrical photo series

to experiment with and demonstrate our vision.

Learn more about the Strange-Tundra opera here.

View the photo series here. 

Listen to the Opera here:

Part 1

Part 2

'So Is Legend' or "Roveses Reaea" is a feature film project, an ice opera, and a grand story. It follows the journey of an extraterrestrial girl raised by light entities who speak a language which can only be sung.

It is an experimental music film, dream-heavy science-fiction film, a martial arts film, a dance film, and also something completely to its own.

There are characters who practice martial arts, characters who practice interpretive contemporary dance and characters who combine the two art forms to create a hybrid martial dance style. Additionally, they are not depicted as just movement arts, but forms of communication. 

"'Roveses' honors both art forms by both featuring them separately and marrying them gracefully.

Set design for 'Roveses' will focus on hyper visual beauty and monochromatic color usage.

We take great inspiration from the 2002 epic, Hero. 

Hero allows a single color to take over a scene. The items which live in the set are also key to the scene itself and play a major role in its execution.

In this scene, the green flowing fabric plays a crucial role. It hides the characters at strategic moments during a fight sequence adding suspense.

The fabric also serves as an interactive prop, with characters cutting through it to reveal one another.

Overall, the fabric acts as a large over-hanging character in the scene, giving a sense of grandeur and overwhelming largeness for the audience.

The music will be in the composition style 'Strange-Tundra'. 

This style, the name coined by Xxhe, uses recordings of ice, tundra sounds to create music. It also uses abstract interpretations of frozen landscapes for composition. Strange-Tundra will deeply enhance the alien world created and be one of the memorable staples of the film which make it stand out against others. 

Nenom, the home planet of our characters, rests in deep space and is entirely frozen. 

Similar to Saturn’s moon Titan but with distinct differences, Nenom features vast frozen landscapes, endless tundras, ice chunk biomes, bioluminescent alien forests, and snow blanketing all grounds. 

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The story follows Xaarleas or Scaarleas, a young extraterrestrial girl. 

Roveses tells her story. She is born with white hair and pink eyes into a dark green haired people known as the Onés. She is brought to a distant abandoned temple in the deep tundra as a baby where light entities are rumored to live.

Xaarleas is raised by the light entities and kept far away from the outside world. She reaches her nearly full grown years having never gone into the outside world once before. She had spent her years speaking to the light entities, learning their language, and copying down all that they said into self-bound books and by carving them into the floors and walls. 

The light entities speak in poetry and abstract words. They sometimes make clear sense but mostly do not. Xaarleas learns to understand vaguely what they say and writes down what they say simply because she can. 

She is what is called an "Ashen", a special person born with white hair who can hear the voices of the light entities without pain. Others die at the high pitched sound of their speech.

In this world, Ashens are feared. The light entities are as well. 

Where Xaarleas was born, the light entities are thought to be cruel and nightmarish. They live only in whispered bedtime stories and the winds of legends. Ashens like Xaarleas are rare. It is rare that they are born but when they are, because they are so feared, they are killed at birth.

Xaarleas knows none of this and grows up protected from this knowledge within the walls of the temple she was born--until one night when the light entities open the doors of her home and invite her to go outside...

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Combining experimental music, dreamscape storytelling, martial arts, contemporary dance, poetta bizarre, highly unusual alien languages, and ice music, this is an artistic experience spanning multiple mediums which has truly never been done before. 

Roveses is a martial arts film, it's a dance film, poetry film, an experimental music display and more.

Normally, martial arts and dance, these two art forms are each the focus of separate films, but in 'Roveses', some characters practice martial arts, some dance, and others do a combination of both.

This concept blends these disciplines gracefully, honoring both of their essences through reinvention.

We do not just have characters practice these art forms, but also use them in an unusual way. By acting like a form of communication, they become like languages and enhance the storytelling. 

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We created a DIY, budget less short-film in order to explore and display the concept on the screen. 

The project titled, "You saved me from not changing," depicts three key scenes in a separate, extremely similar and Roveses-inspired story. 

it is set on the same planet and the events of the story play out within the same world. 

Release Date 12/09/2025