Marking ten years since the book’s publication, “EXTRIGUE at Anthology” pairs a new cut of Wilder’s film – slowed to the sludging pace of Kotecha’s written account – with a live marathon reading of the book by the author, friends, writers, and artists, obviating any need to recall the details of Wilder's film in favor of the trembling present tense of the cinematic screen.

Extrigue at Anthology with Shiv Kotecha (Author), Hicham Awad, Omar Berrada, Courtney Bush, Tyler Coburn, Elena Comay del Junco, Mónica de la Torre, Devan Díaz, Kay Gabriel, Peter Goldberg, Rainer Diana Hamilton, Lucy Ives, Benjamin Krusling, Inney Prakash, Kim Rosenfield, Tracy Rosenthal, Suneil Sanzgiri, Sarah Schulman, Stevie Triano, and Joey Yearous-Algozin (Readers)

Shiv Kotecha’s 2015 book-length poem EXTRIGUE, takes an actuarial approach, obliterating the plot, sound, and banter of Wilder’s noir in order to showcase the infinity of ways in which language strives to describe what’s seen. All 419 shots of Wilder’s film are rendered into a procedural of glinting objects and part-objects, warping shadows, and twisted shafts of light.