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Join us Wednesday, October 21, at 6 pm for a screening of Outrider (US, 2025, 101 min., digital), artist Alystyre Julian’s portrait of the legendary poet Anne Waldman. The screening precedes Waldman’s public reading, Dharma Gaze, on Thursday, October 29.
This screening is co-presented by the Department of Asian Studies, the English Department, MDOCS, Media and Film Studies, and the Tang. It will be introduced by Ben Bogin, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, and Maggie Greaves, Associate Professor of English, who teach a class entitled "Buddhism and Poetry." This event is free and open to the public.
About the Film
Alystyre Julian’s Outrider is the first feature-length cine-kinetic portrait of Grammy-nominated, epic poet, performer, and activist Anne Waldman. 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 collaborations 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, Pat Steir, Fast Speaking Music, and others. Outrider celebrates Waldman’s visionary energy and transcendent presence, as she channels the thunderous power of poetry through the ancient, bardic tradition.
About Alystyre Julian
Alystyre Julian, the director of Outrider, is a poet and filmmaker. In 2026, Julian, along with Lost Voyage Collective, was awarded a grant from Foundation of Contemporary Arts to make a multi-media project at Black Mountain College. Her poetry was featured in the 2026 Arts for Art Vision festival video by Jo Wood Brown. She 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, videos, 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 teaches yoga/nidra.