österreich premiere!
the vienna poetry school presents:

outrider

usa 2025
buch und regie: alystyre julian
producers: sarah riggs, martin scorsese
101 min farbe & s/w engl. OF

alystyre julian’s outrider is the first feature-length portrait of grammy-nominated, epic poet, performer, and activist anne waldman. in immersive jaunts of collaboration, the film follows waldman and her century-crossing lineage of artistic and generative  practices. guided by poetic kinships of the beat generation and with radical female musicians, waldman has spent decades generating close communities of kindred spirits, from the downtown new york scene and the founding of the dynamic poetry project at st. mark’s church; to the naropa university’s jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics; to gatherings in big sur, mexico city, morocco, and beyond. 
through performances, song, and conversation, outrider collaborates with waldman as a person woven of poetry, an inimitable creative and social force dedicated to the propulsion of the artistic imagination and the generative practices which form in its wake. the film moves within waldman’s artistic circles and poetic vortex, to include patti smith, meredith monk, bob dylan, laurie anderson, thurston moore, kiki smith, pat steir, fast speaking music, and others. as a visionary word-worker and transcendent presence, outrider celebrates waldman as she channels through the ancient, bardic tradition the thunderous power of poetry.

www.outriderfilm.com

in anwesenheit von anne waldman, alystyre julian (regisseurin) & sarah riggs (produzentin), anschließendes gespräch moderiert von judith nika pfeifer (schule für dichtung).
(in englischer sprache)

tickets https://www.filmarchiv.at/de/kino/film/sc_031N2ufqgjM6yQJX4qZpHn

anne waldman, alystyre julian, sarah riggs

biografien:

anne waldman is an internationally acclaimed poet and the author of more than sixty books, including the forthcoming mesopotopia (2025) and most recently archivist scissors (2025). other notable works include fast speaking woman: chants and essays (1996), the iovis trilogy: colors in the mechanism of concealment (2011), and bard, kinetic (2023). she is a founder and former director of the the poetry project at st. mark’s church-in-the-bowery, and along with contemporaries allen ginsberg and diane diprima, founded the ‘jack kerouac school for disembodied poetics’ at naropa university. her poetry belongs to the lineages of the beat, new york school, and black mountain movements of new american poetry. as a feminist, social activist, and powerful performer, she has read in the streets and literary institutions worldwide and continues to teach poetics all over the world.
anne waldman and the vienna poetry school (sfd):
anne waldman, associated with the sfd since its inception and an important artist for the sfd even in its founding phase, has been a frequent guest here ever since, giving classes, lectures, readings and the laudatory speech for the sfd's 20th anniversary.
https://sfd.at/lehren-und-lernen/faculty/anne-waldman

alystyre julian is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer. she is the director of outrider (2025), an experimental portrait documentary made with & about poet anne waldman. julian co-curated language and light: the films of ed bowes at anthology film archives (2024). she was the stills photographer on award-winning feature films diane, monsters and men, and others, and has directed and worked on numerous short films, video and documentary projects. she holds an mfa in writing from bard college, and previously taught writing at long island university, montclair state university, and screenwriting at new york university. her poems have been featured in publications such as poetry project newsletter, chain, talisman, and pharos. she lives and works in new york city, where she is at work on a new film project related to black mountain college. 

sarah riggs is a poet, filmmaker, and producer of outrider. past films include: six lives: a cinepoem (2016) and the tangier 8 (2009), which screened at the cinémathèque de tanger (morocco), the berlinale, and the tate modern. she is the author of eight books of poetry in english, most recently lines (winter editions, 2025). she has translated and co-translated seven books of contemporary french poetry into english, including etel adnan's time (nightboat, 2019), recipient of the griffin international poetry prize and the 2020 best translated book award.

in association with metro kinokulturhaus wien