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)

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