VERTICAL POOL PRESENTS

"T R A G O S"
AN ANTERO ALLI FILM (2000; 105 min.)

"An audacious and chilling parable that questions misdirected
over-reliance on gadgets and God, the parallels between Alli's
futuristic tale and the assault on many basic contemporary liberties
seems too close for comfort ... TRAGOS is an intellectual
adrenaline rush of hypnotic strength and emotional depth."

Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (four stars)

 


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Watch an excerpt from: "T R A G O S"

 

 


BARBARA JASPERSEN as
Bella Luxor, the Blinded Visionary

Underground San Francisco, 2012. An urban tribe of technopagans
execute their ecstatic rites in "Tragos", a virtual reality realm.
One night their leader, Bella Luxor, overamps the VR program
and awakens blind. Her sister, Vivika, does not wake up at all.

 


BOBBY WEINAPPLE as Robert Logos, the Christian Prosecutor (left)
and NEIL HOWARD as Stretch Albright, the Unemployed Actor
(right)

A fundamentalist Christian attourney views this tragedy as the workings
of a satanic suicide cult and recruits an unemployed actor to bring their
demise. A cyber-noir witch hunt unfolds only to reveal deeper layers
of redemption gone wrong in an era of total economic collapse.

 


ROBERT HAMM as Alexander Luxor, Tragos creator

 

"Totally absorbing and intellectually stimulating, TRAGOS sheds an eerie
and healthily disturbing light on the mass-hypnotic-narcotic programming
that we are
all subliminally subjected to, in what we deludedly
refer to as 'everyday reality'."
-- Ralph Metzner, Ph.D

 


LEE VOGT
as The Priest

 

"The story might sound like an opportunity for countercultural
self-congratulation, with heroic pagans fighting off an oppressive church.
Yet the prosecutor, though misguided, is one of the most sympathetic
characters in the movie, and the priest who regularly gives him advice
offers nothing but wisdom."
-- Jesse Walker, REASON Magazine

 


TRAGOS MOVIE CLIPS

 


EXCERPT FROM THE FILM
not a trailer


TRAGOS VR ritual #1
and TRAGOS VR ritual #2
TWO
VIRTUAL REALITY SCENES (no audio)

 


Credits, Media, Filmography, Making of, DVD

 

 


 

Cast & Crew
credit list; hi-rez pix of actors

MEDIA: "Beyond Miramax"
Jesse Walker's story/review for Reason Magazine

MEDIA: filmthreat.com
Review by Phil Hall (four stars)

Antero Alli -- filmography
completed works, reviews, bio

On the Making of "Tragos"
The Back Story; Screening History

 


THE DVD
Available only from the filmmaker

MP3
"DELAROSE" by Sylvi Alli from the film "TRAGOS"
(on the Too Near the Ghosts CD)

E-MAIL THE DIRECTOR

 

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