FILM PRODUCTIONS

Sarah Riggs is the producer of Outrider (Autumn 2024) a feature documentary on and with the poet performer Anne Waldman, directed, written and filmed by Alystyre Julian, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.  https://www.outriderfilm.com/trailer

SIX LIVES (Cinepoems riffing on Virginia Woolf)
DIrected by Sarah Riggs, Filmed by Frédéric Tcheng, Choregraphy Mathilde Monnier

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

I first conceived of Six Lives after reading Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse five summers in a row, and living in New York, France, and Morocco in communities of writers, artists and translators.  Woolf ‘s essay « The Cinema » offers a critique of cinema as a potentially superficial medium, and I wanted to achieve the depth of her work, and of poetic thinking, precisely in the cinematic medium.  We gathered a cluster of six writers, in various combinations, over a period of several years, in six locations, each time with a different Woolf text in question.  What gets charted is a movement from abstract thinking and the division of the body into parts, into a poetically embodied cinema where mind and body are in synchronicity.  An opening.

CREDITS

WATCH « THE TANGIER 8 » (Cinepoems, premiered at the Berlinale)

Four Shorts produced by Sarah Riggs with Tamaas
at the Cinématheque de Tanger, Morocco, with filmmaker-poet pairs:
Natalia Almada & Peter Gizzi
Ivan Boccara & Carla Faesler
Akram Zaatari & Liliane Giraudon
Jem Cohen & Luc Sante

FORTHCOMING « OUTRIDER, » (A Documentary on Poet/Performer Anne Waldman).

Directed and Filmed by Alystyre Julian, Edited by Sarah Hagey, Produced by Sarah Riggs with Tamaas. Music by Devin Brahja Waldman, Ambrose Bye, Fast Speaking Music & More
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