about the film

zThe Gift

*A Documentary by Louise Hogarth

Cinematographer
May Rigler attended the College of Art in Berlin to study camera work in documentary film. In 1995, she graduated with a BFA/MFA in film. She has worked as a director of photography on several documentary projects including Coleoptera (1999), a 16 mm film by Gustav Zimmermann; Eloy Casado’s Character Driven (2000); and Alexandra Sell’s AVON Ladies (2001); and the making of Goff in the Desert (2002), a 35 mm film by Heinz Emigholz, for which she served as camera assistant.