Voyage: A Live Visual Album

Voyage is the latest multimedia project from Nashville-based music and performance artist Sarah Saturday (also known as Gardening, Not Architecture), featuring a mix of vibrant original songs (produced by Boom Forest) performed live to backing tracks, innovative short films (directed by Sarah’s long-time collaborator, filmmaker Dycee Wildman), dance (choreographed by Joi Ware), audio sampling, and spoken word. The live performance is both vulnerable and cathartic, at once enveloping viewers in its rich visual landscape while simultaneously creating an intimate and safe space for self-reflection.

  • Sarah Saturday
    Director
  • Dycee Wildman
    Director
  • Sarah Saturday
    Writer
  • Dycee Wildman
    Writer
  • Sarah Saturday
    Key Cast
  • Caleb Dirks
    Director of Photography
  • Danielle Shields
    Production Assistants
  • Jennifer Bonior
    Production Assistants
  • Kelli Dirks
    Production Assistants
  • Ricky Foster
    Production Assistants
  • Jazmin Lee
    Production Assistants
  • Ken Conrad
    Color/VFX
  • Dycee Wildman
    Editor
  • Sarah Saturday
    Producer
  • Sara McLoud
    Costume
  • Joi Ware
    Choreography
  • Sarah Saturday
    Music Production
  • Boom Forest
    Music Production
  • Jeremy Lister
    Music Production
  • Logan Matheny
    Music Production
  • Alex McCollough
    Music Production
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Multimedia, Musical, Performance, Art
  • Runtime:
    45 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 3, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    26,700 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Nashville Premiere at Darkhorse Theatre
    Nashville
    United States
  • Coop Gallery Residency January 2023
    Nashville
    United States
  • Brave New Works Lab at Oz Arts 2022
    Nashville
    United States
Director Biography - Sarah Saturday, Dycee Wildman

Multimedia artist Sarah Saturday and filmmaker Dycee Wildman have been collaborating since 2014 in the spaces where film, music, and theatre collide. Prior to Voyage, their projects together include How Many Spiders (2020), a short film directed by Dycee featuring an original score by Sarah, Absence of Me (2019), a live audio-visual performance piece, and Fossils (2015), a feature-length film set to Sarah's third studio album.

Sarah and Dycee have both been recipients of the Tennessee Arts Commission's annual Individual Artist Fellowship. Dycee for fiscal year 2020 and Sarah for fiscal year 2024.

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Director Statement

With Voyage, we took everything we’ve learned from the past eight years of trial-and-error and self-discovery and began writing the story even before Sarah had any songs committed to tape. With this approach, we were truly able to build a unique multi-media narrative from the ground up. This is a story about the hero’s journey within, facing the inner demons that haunt us all and finding a way to make peace with them. Calling upon our own life experiences, with nods to several influences and teachers we have had along the way, we wanted to explore the confounding experience of being human, the privilege of self-discovery, and the deeply messy journey into the unknowable.

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery.” — Thomas Merton