#AlumniFriday with Fabien Riggall 🎞️
This week we check out the journey of cinema pioneer Fabien Riggall. From assisting in a variety of Hurtwood productions to setting up the $100 million dollar franchise 'Secret Cinema'.
Check out his story below 👇
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🎙️At Large Episode 6: @fabienriggall founder of Secret Cinema - "Silencing the Discursive Mind"
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Sooner or later, we needed to do a show about film.
With its potential for scale, resource intensiveness, and power to transfix the viewer, film is in many ways the ultimate creative business.
Fabien Riggall is the founder of Secret Cinema, a London-based immersive theatrical experience that puts the audience at the heart of the story. He is the inventor of a hybrid genre between film and theater, creating inhabitable cinematic worlds in which participants are both members of the scene and audience to a film screening. Under Fabien’s direction, Secret Cinema welcomed over 1.5 million guests to 60 productions from Shanghai to Los Angeles, and after 16 years was acquired in a reported $100M sale.
During this interview, Fabien walks listeners through what it’s like to attend a Secret Cinema production and the narrative devices used for immersive worldbuilding. He answers questions about scaling the business and the human desire for escapist, transportive experiences. We discuss social media addiction, UK rave culture, the allure of wild swimming, and the imperative to choose investors wisely.
We conducted this interview in London’s Somerset House, former seat of the Royal Navy Admiralty.
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A documentary like no other: charting Sinéad OʼConnorʼs rise to worldwide fame and her subsequent exile from the pop mainstream.
Nominated for the upcoming @ProducersGuild Awards, Nothing Compares is in consideration for @TheAcademy's Best Documentary category.
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“when something is bothering me, i write a song that tells my feelings.” - loretta lynn (14 april 1932 - 4 october 2022)
the world has lost another legend, rest in peace
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we have found our first lost district in a former department store in croydon
this is the beginning of lost city
a space to create radical new forms of art & entertainment
applications to become a citizen will open soon
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The list from the opening party. This is a photo of a photo of the list. I don’t know who wrote the list, other than that they’re an artist. You can tell this was written by an artist.
But I agree that big ambitious installation art has fallen from favor. Never see it anymore.