Rigger for Hire
Professional rope rigging and on-set bondage consultation for film, television, and media productions.
Harken, filmmakers — please hear me!
If your film is going to have bondage in it, please get a real bondage practitioner to consult with you on your vision. We can show you how to make your scene come to life in a way that looks genuinely threatening instead of comical, teach your antagonists how to hold and move the rope so they look competent and scary, and at the very least show you how to tie someone so it takes actual effort to escape.
There are so many movies — both independent and mainstream, even blockbusters — whose bondage is done so poorly that it takes anyone who knows rope completely out of the moment. When the performer has to fight to hold the ropes on for fear a sneeze could make them fall off, it is painful to watch. The point is that they should be fighting to get out of the ropes, not to stay in them.
Whether you are shooting an independent short or a studio feature, a little expert guidance makes the difference between a scene that lands and one that breaks the spell. We would be thrilled to help.
Make the scene believable
We show you how to bring a scene to life so the bondage reads as genuinely threatening on camera, not accidentally comical.
Coach your performers
We teach your antagonists how to hold and move the rope so they look competent and in control, and we work with the restrained performer so the tie looks real and stays safe.
Tie it so it holds
We can rig a tie that actually takes effort to escape, so your protagonist is fighting to get out of the ropes instead of fighting to keep them on.