Fabien Riggall

Fabien Riggall created Future Shorts in 2003 as a platform for new filmmakers to present their work. Future Shorts is now the largest short-film festival globally. Riggall went on to found Future Cinema in 2005 and Secret Cinema in 2007. Riggall is credited with establishing immersive cinema as a format.[1]

Career

After studying at the New York Film Academy, Riggall began a career in film production as a runner.[2] In 2003, he put on the first Future Shorts night at the underground bar Ginglik in Shepherd’s Bush.[3] In 2005, Riggall set up Future Cinema, to create immersive environments where the audience could experience films within site-specific locations.[3]

These ideas evolved to form Secret Cinema in 2007.[4] The company stages events of varying scale, from a few hundred to a hundred thousand attendees. In the summer of 2014, over 80,000 people attended the Secret Cinema presents production of Back to The Future in London’s Olympic Park. Secret Cinema productions of Back to the Future and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back created new records as the biggest live cinema events to date.[5]

In 2011, St. John collaborated with Secret Cinema to launch Secret Restaurant. In 2013, Secret Music created an interactive retelling of Laura Marling’s album ‘Once I Was An Eagle’. An old school in Hackney was turned into a hotel with each room becoming a song.[6] In 2015, a Mos Eisley Cantina-themed Secret Nightclub and 'RebelX' Rebel Alliance shop ran alongside the Star Wars show in secret East London locations.[7]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "London's Most Influential". Evening Standard.
  2. ↑ Susannah Butter for The Standard. 31 July 2014 The battle to get Back to the Future: Secret Cinema founder Fabien Riggall on getting the show back on the road
  3. 1 2 Cheshire, Tom. "The Screen Saver".
  4. ↑ "Interview with the Director of Secret Cinema". Aesthetica.com.
  5. ↑ "Secret Cinema presents Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back". Telegraph.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Laura Marling Review". Telegraph.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Secret Cinema launch a Star Wars themed Nightclub". Timeout.com. TimeOut.
  8. ↑ "The Guardian 100 Influential People in Film". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "The Culture 100". TimeOut.com.
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