FILM PRODUCTIONS
From Executive Producer Martin Scorsese:
Anne Waldman’s Epic Ride
Feature film by Alystyre Julian and produced by Sarah Riggs, Outrider is a portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman, and her six decades creating vibrant communities of poets, performers, and activists everywhere she goes—from Greenwich Village, St. Marks and the downtown poetry scene and Naropa University ‘Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,’ to Mexico City, Casablanca, and beyond. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and inspired by poetic kinships with fellow radical female musicians—Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Cecilia Vicuña, Meredith Monk—Outrider celebrates Waldman’s role as a visionary word-worker, a transcendent presence, as she sings out in the ancient, bardic tradition the thunderous power of poetry.
Anthology Film Archives | New York City
April 1–3, 2025, 7pm (Tickets)
RiverRun International Film Festival | Winston-Salem, NC
April 12, 2025, 4pm
April 14, 2025, 7:30pm
Poetas Poético Film Festival | Madrid
November 21, 2025
Schamrock Festival Munich / Vienna, screening dates to be announced
If you would like to bring OUTRIDER to your classroom, city, or a theater near you, please explore the Outrider website and follow @OutriderMovie on Instagram.
SIX LIVES (Cinepoems riffing on Virginia Woolf)
DIrected by Sarah Riggs, Filmed by Frédéric Tcheng, Choregraphy Mathilde Monnier
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.
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
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