About this Event
Swedenborg House is proud to present:
The UK Premiere of OUTRIDER
(2025, 1 hr 41 mins) Director: Alystyre Julian; Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese.
A film exploring Anne Waldman’s life and practice, followed by a panel discussion with Anne Waldman, Alystyre Julian and Stephen Coates.
As part of the Allen Ginsberg at 100 celebrations, curated and produced by Jesse Goodman and Peter Hale in collaboration with the Allen Ginsberg Estate, The Bureau of Lost Culture and the Southbank Centre, Swedenborg House is delighted to host the UK premiere of Outrider (2025, 1 hr 41 mins), directed by Alystyre Julian and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
Described in the official copy as: “a kinetic portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman’s transcendent role as a visionary word-worker, from the downtown New York scene and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, to the ‘Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,’ to Big Sur, Mexico City, Morocco, and onward. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and poetic kinships with radical female musicians, Outrider channels the ancient, bardic tradition—celebrating the thunderous power of poetry.”
“Outrider is a love letter to the lightning strike of poets in performance. As a decades-long participant in the New York downtown poetry scene, I had a deep connection to Anne Waldman as a driving force, I conceived of a film that would depict her life and work in the Outrider lineage of poets, with Waldman at the center, I honed in on the kinetic variety in her performances.”—Alystyre Julian
ANNE WALDMAN is an award-winning author and one of America’s leading poets. Since the 1960s, she has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She has also been connected to the Beat Generation poets and has published numerous books, pamphlets and publications.
ALYSTYRE JULIAN is an American writer, filmmaker, and photographer. In addition to being the director of Outrider, she was also the stills photographer on the feature films Goldie (2019), Diane (2018) and Monsters and Men (2018). Alongside American poet Lee Ann Brown, she co-directed the short film Color Work (1999).
STEPHEN COATES is host of the Bureau of Lost Cultures podcasts, pilot of London band The Real Tuesday Weld, curator of Salon for the City and co-curator of the annual London Month of the Dead festival amongst other cultural endeavours.
JESSE GOODMAN is a producer and curator working across music, film and performance. He has worked with the Allen Ginsberg Estate since 2002, when he helped spearhead the launch of AllenGinsberg.org. With Peter Hale, he co-produced The Fall of America Vol. I & II, internationally collaborative music projects created for the 50th anniversary of Ginsberg’s landmark poetry collection. With Hale, he is producing the international Allen Ginsberg Centennial programme (2026–27).
HEADER PHOTO CREDIT: “Anne Waldman, Union Square Warhol Factory”, Gerard Malanga, 1970.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Swedenborg House, The Swedenborg Society, London, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00
