Antero and Sylvi, 2007 (photo by Dan Wilson)
Antero and Sylvi, 2007 (photo by Dan Wilson)
ANTERO ALLI and SYLVI ALLI
Antero and Sylvi have been in artistic collaboration since 1989 when they first met in Seattle WA. In the summer of 1996, they moved to Berkeley and established Vertical Pool Productions for solo projects, joint ventures and collaborating with local community talent, crew and venues. They are currently promoting screenings of their new film, "The Invisible Forest", based on an original story inspired by the visionary ideas of French Surrealist playwright Antonin Artaud.
SYLVI ALLI (b. 5/25/1953; San Antonio, Texas)
After extensive training in classical piano, Sylvi turned to painting and between 1976-93, her art was shown in galleries in the U.S. and Europe. In 1989, she began her journey into ambient/industrial electronic music and in 1995, she started singing. These elements soon combined in the development of soundtracks for dance, theatre and cinema. Sylvi has scored the songs and music for most of Antero's films & theatre since 1989. In 1996, she designed and published "The Vertical Oracle" (a neo-Tarot deck) and starred in "Lily in Limbo", a 27-minute poetry film. Her music CDs include "Too Near the Ghosts", "Dream of the Blue Moth", "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" and "A Hundred Birds". Sylvi has been a core member of ParaTheatrical ReSearch since 1996 and has appeared in numerous films that she also co-produced with her husband ("Tragos", "Hysteria", "Under a Shipwrecked Moon", "The Greater Circulation" and "The Invisible Forest"). Sylvi also teaches women's singing classes.
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ANTERO ALLI (b. 11/11/1952; Helsinki, Finland)
Antero has been writing, directing, performing and producing original experimental theatre works since 1972. In 1977 he began developing a paratheatre medium combining techniques of physical theatre, dance and Zazen meditation for accessing the internal landscape (documented in his book,"Towards an Archeology of the Soul" and three videos); he is founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch. Since 1993 Antero has been writing and directing his own feature-length art films (available on dvd), several of which have received high critical praise at prestigious filmthreat.com. Between 1991-95, he was editor/publisher of Talking Raven Quarterly, an iconoclastic literary journal in Seattle WA. From 1992 to 2002, Antero and Sylvi curated the highly popular Nomad VideoFilm Festival, a west coast touring vehicle for experimental shorts. Antero is also a practicing astrologer and the author of numerous books some of which serve as textbooks for courses he occasionally teaches online.
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CONTACT POINTS
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Vertical
Pool Productions
PO Box 7518, Berkeley CA USA 94707
voicemail: (510) 464-4640