THE DVD CATALOG
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"Dreambody/Earthbody" (2012; 80 min.)  A Paratheatre Document. Since 1977, Antero Alli has been developing a medium of paratheatre inspired by the physical theatre of Jerzy Grotowski and incorporating techniques of Zazen, modern dance, and vocalization to access and express the internal landscape. For this experimental documentary video, Alli invited a group of seven he previously trained in paratheatre methods to execute a ritual choreography with movements recalled from their nocturnal dreams. Throughout this experiment, the group demonstrates a series of paratheatre techniques accompanied by Alli's narrative outline of his creative ritual process. Also featuring participant interviews, dramatic re-enactments of the director's own dreams, and a lush musical score by composer/singer, Sylvi Alli. Written, shot, narrated, directed by Antero Alli. Click images for more details.

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"DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY": reviewed (4 stars)
by David Finkelstein for filmthreat.com (April 20, 2013)

"DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY": Interview with Antero Alli
by Isabel Fondevila for A.T.A. (January 14, 2013)

"Flamingos" (2012; 90 min.) An Outlaw Romance Noir. Twin sisters, Beatrice and Zoe, are in love with Ray, a bank-robbing philosopher driven by visions of the end the world. Though Beatrice and Ray are married, Ray runs away with the free-spirited Zoe and hides out in a seedy motel after a bank heist. Beatrice files for divorce and sets out to find Ray. Meanwhile, two metaphysical entities from the Bardo zones take special interest in their fates in this dizzy cocktail chaser of amour fou, crime, and premonition dreams. Written, shot, and directed by Antero Alli. Click images for more details.

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Sexual situations, language, drug use.

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"Flamingos" reviewed

DIRECTOR'S VISION STATEMENT

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"To Dream of Falling Upwards" (2011; 125 min.) A Zany Occult Thriller. 

"The Invisible Forest" (2008; 111 min.) A Hypnogogic Drama. Alex, an experimental theatre director (Antero Alli), brings his troupe out into the forest to perform his vision of French Surrealist Antonin Artaud's (Clody Cates) magic theatre of ghosts, gods, and demons. During their forest experiment, Alex is haunted by a reoccuring dream where Artaud appears and mocks his ambitions. With his sanity pushed to its outer limits, Alex visits a psychotherapist who suggests hypnotic regression to remedy his problem. What follows is a surrealistic trip through the internal landscape of his hallucinations, dreams and memories to a place beyond belief, beyond words, beyond the mind itself, and into The Invisible Forest. Conceived and directed by Antero Alli featuring the writings of William Shakesepare and Antonin Artaud.  Click images for more details.

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"The Mind is a Liar and a Whore" (2007; 92 min.) An Anxious X-mas Comedy. A typical Berkeley household (a heartbroken Astrologer, a closet Satanist, an Inuit opera singer and a WebCast diva) is forced indoors during an alleged bioterrorist attack and a citywide lockdown enforced by the federal government. Ona, a webcast diva with her own show, thinks the Feds are shifting into a fullblown police state. Her roomies think she's paranoid. Havoc and hilarity prevail as they all scramble to their own conclusions about what might be happening during the escalating uncertainty. Written and directed by Antero Alli. Click images for more details.

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"The Greater Circulation" (2005; 93 min.) A Poetic Docufiction. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, Paris 1908, poet Rainer Maria Rilke interacts with the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after birthing her first child. Grief-stricken, Rilke transforms his suffering into an epic lament, "Requiem for a Friend" addressing the central drama of women at the crossroads between Art and Motherhood. Meanwhile, a hundred years later in California, three women prepare to perform "Requiem" as an avant garde performance ritual (staged & filmed before a live audience for this film project). Written & directed by Antero Alli; "Requiem for a Friend" (included in its entirety throughout the film) written by Rainer Maria Rilke. Click images for more details.

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"The Greater Circulation" reviewed
by Phil Hall for filmthreat.com (5 stars)

DIRECTOR'S NOTES

"Under a Shipwrecked Moon" (2003; 96 min.) A Mystical Romance. The power of a long-buried family secret is unleashed when the extreme rituals of a self-made shamanic punk rocker catapult his conscioiusness into the spirit realm in search of his father, a ship captain who drowned at sea. This ship captain's mother was a Finnish sorceress whose powers were passed onto the punk rocker grandson who enters the dreams of his comatose grandfather as a Raven battling a giant Hedgehog in a game of dream chess. A surreal fable of true love and the mystical depths of family bonds. Written, shot and directed by Antero Alli. Click images for more details.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE MOON

"Hysteria" (2002; 83 min.) A Post-9/11 Suspense Drama. During the Serb-Croatian war, Ikar, a young Catholic soldier unwittingly drinks datura tea and hallucinates a visitation from the Holy Virgin Mary, an apparition that delivers a dangerous mission. To fulfill his destiny, Ikar travels to Oakland California and starts training as a boxer. Meanwhile, his new neighbors, two Persian sisters, become fascinated by hiis secret ways and are soon drawn into his incendiary religious ritual. Written by Antero Alli and Jakob Bokulich. Directed and shot by Antero Alli. Click images for more details.

"Hysteria" reviewed
by Phil Hall for filmthreat.com (5 stars)

COMMENTS FROM CAST AND CREW

"Tragos" (2000/01; 105 min.) A Cyber-Noir Witch Hunt. Underground San Francisco, 2012. An urban tribe of technopagans perform their ecstatic rites in "Tragos", a virtual reality realm when one night their leader, Bella Luxor, overamps the VR program and emerges blind. Her sister, Vivika, does not return at all; her consciousness remains in virtual reality as a golden bird "with wings too monstrous to fly".  Bob Logos, a fundamentalist Christian attourney, views Vivika's mysterious death as the workings of a satanic suicide cult and seeks their ultimate demise. But Bella Luxor has other plans for Bob and Tragos. Written and directed by Antero Alli. Click images for more details.

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THIS FILM REVIEWED
by Phil Hall for filmthreat.com (4 stars)

PRODUCTION BACK STORIES

"The Drivetime" (1995; 86 min.) A Cyber-Fi Time-Travel Tale. In the hopes of obtaining politically sensitive video footage of police riots, a federal achivist from the year 2023 uses a flawed Time Travel device to return to Seattle circa 1999 via the dreams of a video activist who shoots police riots. Written and produced by Antero Alli and Rob Brezsny. Directed by Antero Alli.

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MULTIPLE REVIEWS OF THIS FILM

"LOADED VISIONS: THE VIDEOPOEMS" 
(1991-2001; 74 min.) Using poetic text as oblique nonlinear narratives. 
Featuring the 27-min. poetry film, "LILY IN LIMBO" starring SYLVI ALLI 

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"This superior collection of short films made over the course of a decade shows 
that Antero Alli, who has made many feature length films, is also a master of the 
short form. Set to poetic texts, often to excellent music by his long time collaborator
Sylvi Alli, these films show Alli’s command of film editing and visual language, and his
ability to draw performances of deeply grounded power from dancers and actors, to
create visions which are indeed “loaded.” They are loaded with the ability to evoke
deep longings, exaltations, historic and cultural memories, and altered spiritual states."
from the review by David Finkelstein for filmthreat.com (7/13/2010) 
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COLD FORCE, text by Alli; MOUVEMENT, text by Rimbaud; ANTI-PHILOSOPHER, text by Tzara. 

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Featuring:
BOOK OF QUESTIONS (1993; 6:00), text by Pablo Neruda
COLD FORCE (1994; 4:00), text by Antero Alli
WITCH BURNING (1998; 4:00), text by Sylvi Plath
A.A. ANTI-PHILOSOPHER (1999; 4:00), text by Tristan Tzara
MOUVEMENT (2001; 4:00) and FAIRY (2001; 4:00), text by Arthur Rimbaud
D.U.I. (1991; 8:00) and THE WORD, WEIRD (1993; 6:30), text by Antero Alli
SOME PASS THIS WAY (1994; 8:00), text by Sean Blosl
and LILY IN LIMBO (1996; 27:00), text by Hilda Doolittle (HD) 
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"Orphans of Delirium" (2004) and "dreambody/earthbody" (2012)

These two video documents show performance and non-performance aspects
of a group paratheatre medium I have been actively developing since 1977. 
For paratheatre DVD information, click either of the above images. Based on
material from my book, "Towards an Archeology of the Soul". -- ANTERO  

Clinton Street Theater, Portland OR, 2011

Though my videos usually screen publically on the USA west coast,
anyone with enough motivation and organizational skills can set 
up a public exhibition. If no admission is charged, these films can
be shown for the cost of the dvd alone ($25). If any admission is 
charged, we split the door 50/50. For those wishing to produce 
a public screening of any of these movies, click this for details.

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re: the DVD media format 
Format: NTSC. These dvds are also recorded in "dvd-r" format, not pro-dvd format (like at NetFlix). The dvd-r format (zone zero) plays on most computers and dvd players but not all of them. If these dvds do not play on your computer or dvd player, return the dvd in its original (unscratched) condition and you will receive a full refund.

re: public broadcasts & screenings of my films 
These dvds are released for private home-viewing only. Any public screenings or broadcasts on any public media without written consent from the producers is prohibited by law. Note: I offer very reasonable policies for public showings of my films. If you wish to screen or broadcast my work publically, click this. - Antero Alli 

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"Alli's films are not for the easily distracted. They are challenging and
sometimes cryptic in their dissection of human emotions and societal
interactions. Repeated viewings, however, reveal layers of wisdom 
and wit that may not have been obvious in the initial screening."
Phil Hall -- Encyclopedia of Underground Movies

ANTERO ALLI (b. 11/11/1952) is a Finnish born, West Coast-based underground filmmaker who has been writing and directing feature-length art films since 1993. His work has garnered critical praise at the prestigious filmthreat.com and screens in limited runs on the west coast arthouse circuit. Antero is also an author of numerous books and the founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch (since 1977), an ongoing exploration of group ritual dynamics that often informs and inspires his films. He resides in Berkeley CA.

VISION STATEMENT and VIDEO/FILMOGRAPHY
"Why I Make Movies" -- list of titles , clips, stills, reviews

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