When love means acting as guardians over each other's solitude...

 


"The Greater Circulation"
a docufiction film by Antero Alli

"Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Requiem for a Friend” is the foundation for this marvelous drama
from underground film legend Antero Alli. The film bifurcates between the tensions
surrounding the theatrical staging of Rilke’s work and flashbacks to the pain and suffering
which Rilke experienced when creating his classic poem. Not unlike the best of Alli’s films,
this production is a marvel of mature emotion and deep wisdom; few films have been able
to explore the issues surrounding death with such grace and intelligence."
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of five)

 

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"In 'The Greater Circulation' we are enchanted and indeed haunted, not only by the
profound trajectory of Rilke's life and work, but also by Alli's ability to tell stories
within stories, to make the invisible visible, and to bring to earth what can only be
truly grasped through spiritual vision." -- Cedrus Monte, Jungian Analyst

 


LLOYD BRICKEN as "Rainer Maria Rilke"

 

1908, Paris. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke is haunted by disturbing dreams and visions
during two fevered nights at the Hotel Biron while writing his lyrical lament,
"REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND", as a tribute to artist Paula Modersohn-Becker
who died unexpectedly soon after giving birth to her first child.

 


LEE VOGT as "Roland"; LLOYD BRICKEN as "Albert"

 

Present time, Berkeley CA. Three women -- an actress, a dancer, a painter --
and a director of paratheatre are preparing to stage Rilke's "REQUIEM" as a
performance ritual. A Rilke-obsessed theatre critic's requests to interview
them are denied and he takes matters into his own hands to get the story.

 


SYLVI ALLI as "the Artist", (painter)
FELECIA FAULKNER as "the Mother", (actress)
and LEAH KAHN as "the Soul Torn Between" (dancer)

Time dissolves as images and impressions from the contemporary
era appear in the poet's night dreams inspiring the writing of his
"Requiem" as Rilke's text is performed one hundred years later,
unravelling an ongoing dream within a dream within a dream.

 


LLOYD BRICKEN as "Rainer Maria Rilke"

Oh don’t take from me what I am slowly learning. I’m sure you have
gone astray if you are moved to homesickness for anything in this dimension.
We transform these Things; they aren’t real, they are only the reflections
upon the polished surface of our being. -- from "REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND".

 

 

film clip, production credits, dvd

 

 


click image for clip of Rilke's second dream (3:00)

 

VERTICAL POOL and PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH present an ANTERO ALLI film
"THE GREATER CIRCULATION ". LLOYD BRICKEN, FELECIA FAULKNER, SYLVI ALLI,
LEE VOGT, LEAH KAHN and featuring ANTERO ALLI as the voice of Rilke.
"Requiem For a Friend" written by RAINER MARIA RILKE.
Translation by STEPHEN MITCHELL.
Screenplay by ANTERO ALLI.

 


SYLVI ALLI, LEAH KAHN and FELECIA FAULKNER

 

Director of Photography, CHRIS RASMUSSEN. Second Unit D.P., SEAN BLOSL.
Sound Recorder, MALCOLM SHERWOOD. Edited by CHRIS ODELL and ANTERO ALLI.
C.G.I. Effects by MICHAEL McWHIRTER. Music by SCRIABIN, BRAHMS, LOOP!STATION,
AMBER ASYLUM, and SYLVI ALLI. Associate Producers: LILY NOVA, FELECIA FAULKNER,
and CHRIS RASMUSSEN. Producers: JODIE EVANS, SYLVI ALLI, and ANTERO ALLI.
Executive Producers, VERTICAL POOL PRODUCTIONS, PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH
Conceived and directed by ANTERO ALLI

 


THE DVD
from the filmmaker only

 

 

about the filmmaker

 

 


 

Antero Alli's deep background in writing and directing for experimental theatre
(1975-present) informs his filmmaking processes (since 1990) with a unique dramatic
aesthetic and cinematic language all its own. Though his films are far-removed from
mainstream values, they have gradually developed their own cult following through
limited one-to-two night screenings in the west coast arthouse cinemas of Seattle,
Port Townsend, Portland, the S.F. area, Sacramento, Nevada City, and L.A..
He resides in Berkeley with his wife, actress and composer, Sylvi Alli.

Filmography and Vision Statement
Clips, reviews, interviews, stills, influences

Director's Project Journal
Preproduction observations and notes

Antero Alli, Bio
b. 11/11/1952 in Helsinki, Finland

 

Click this for more on Rilke and Modersohn-Becker

 

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MP3 -- from the film soundtrack by Sylvi Alli

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