My Gift to the World







Most of my films can be streamed by clicking the --> viewing link in
each movie section below and watched on Smart TVs, computers,
and iPads (not phones!).
For the best picture quality and sound,
I recommend purchasing a DVD
---> here. DVD rentals of most
of these films are available in Portland OR at Movie Madness.

~ ALL IMAGES BELOW LINK TO PRODUCTION DETAILS ~



"BLUE FIRE" (2023; 90 min)
My final film...




"BLUE FIRE" (2023; 90 min. Color) A Cyber-Fi Fever Dream. An elite A.I.coder is on
a collision course between the algorithms of the VR worlds he's creating and the archetypal
dimensions of the greater Collective Unconscious.
BLUE FIRE spins the controversial
A.I. phenomena beyond the consensus narrative of destroying the world VS. saving the
world and
towards a radical vision of the future.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli, Choronzon
and others.
Cinematography, editing, screenplay, and directed by Antero Alli.
Click images for production details.

It is to Alli’s credit how well he wove the avant-garde visions into a coherent storyline,
strengthening both. The final images are especially spellbinding and tint your entire
perspective of what you just watched. Blue Fire is another worthy installment in the
oeuvre of Alli’s cinematic mind expansion.
 
- Michael Talbot-Hayes for filmthreat.com

---> Viewing link

Watch a Brief Excerpt

DVD Purchases ...DVD Rentals (Portland Only)



"THE CELEBRANTS" (2023; 32 min)


 

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"THE CELEBRANTS" (2023; 32 min. Color and B/W) A Paratheatrical Experiment.
Made without a script, this video experiment follows three performing artists - a dancer
(Douglas Allen), singer (Sylvi Alli), guitarist (Antero Alli) - who meet and discuss how
each one approaches a creative state before testing their notions in a spontaneous
performance. Developed as a collaboration based on a story idea by Antero.
Videography, editing, and staging by Antero.
Click images for production details.  

The Celebrants manages to perfectly balance it’s three centers of interest: Theory, Practice,
and Life. The improvisation itself is such a compelling act of spontaneous creation, full of
hauntingly beautiful moments and miraculous interconnections, that I had to both respect
and celebrate the combination of artistic skill and self-knowledge that allows these three
individuals to find such depth of expression and to bring it spectacularly to life. It’s a vision
of a fully integrated mode of being which is not simply a cause for celebration, it is celebration.
- David Finkelstein, Lake Ivan Film Journal

---> Viewing Link <---

(DVD not available).



"TRACER" (2022)





"TRACER" (2022; 93 min. Black&White) A Psi-Fi Noir. With recent advances in Russia’s
remote viewing experiments, coupled with the measured use of their new designer drug C-9,
operatives now locate their targets by entering their dreams. Tracers, the highly trained
mercenaries of the Russian mafia, are also using this psychic technology to their own ends.
A former gunrunner's past catches up to him when his nocturnal dreams begin taking on
new meaning in his daily life when a tracer starts tracking his whereabouts. TRACER is a cat
and mouse yarn unraveling through a maze of underworld drug culture, quantum nonlocality,
and a fractured family trying to pick up the pieces.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others.
Cinematography, editing, screenplay, and direction by Antero. Click images for details.


Written, directed, cut, and shot by indie auteur Antero Alli, the eyebrow-launching
feature Tracer is proof of the existence of secret cinematic kicks you didn’t know
were to be had. By marrying experimental film elements to a genre storyline, the
filmmaker indulges in some boundary-breaking while the story’s pace remains intact.
I became engaged early on and remained so throughout. A very muscular story
structure provides an excellent jungle gym for the acidhead escapades.
- Michael Talbot-Hayes for filmthreat.com

---> Viewing link.

THE TRAILER

DVD Available here



"THE ALCHEMY OF SULPHUR" (2021)

 


"THE ALCHEMY OF SULPHUR" (2021; 107 min. B&W and color) On Reinventing the Romantic.
Hope
is writing a short story for ArtLit magazine. When her boyfriend relationship unravels,
she attempts to escape heartbreak by writing herself into the story as a fictional character who
falls in love with Phineas, the story's central character. As her story develops, her romantic
literary projections begin to unexpectedly trigger a series of real world repercussions catalyzing
a spiritual awakening. THE ALCHEMY OF SULPHUR explores the creative writing process as an
insurrection of the Poetic Imagination.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others. Cinematography, editing,
screenplay, and direction by Antero.
Click images for production details.


Overall, the pace is measured and contemplative, but expertly crafted
so that, once you get pulled into its slower pace, every moment counts,
and the pauses and silences are full of expressive nuance. In The Alchemy
of Sulphur
, we have the master’s voice at the top of his game, allowing
the language, story, images and sounds to distill out of the ether and
arrive in our consciousness in crystalline, perfect form, a true act
of cinematic alchemy.
- David Finkelstein Lake Ivan Film Journal

---> viewing link

THE TRAILER

DVD available here



"THE VANISHING FIELD" (2020)




"THE VANISHING FIELD" (2020; 72 min. B&W and color) A Monastic Drama. Disenchanted
with the corruption of society, Jakob X joins a monastery in the hopes of escaping the world.
One day he starts using meditation to "hack the bardo" with this idea of reincarnating into a
better life. However, the astral world he discovers soon shakes the very ground of his being
and pushes him into a dangerous abyss from which there may be no return.
Filmed mostly
at the Great Vow Zen monastery in Oregon, THE VANISHING FIELD was chiefly improvised
on site with the monks playing themselves. Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others.
Story by Antero.
Cinematography, editing, and direction by Antero. Click either image for production details.


"Alli has the sense and the courage to engage directly with the reality
of life in a monastery. It is his exceptional accomplishment to make
this adventure riveting and suspenseful without relying on a convoluted
plot.
The Vanishing Field is a poetic investigation of very real
experience, not a science fiction fantasy. It is also a gem of a
motion picture and an astonishingly original masterpiece."

- Charles Kruger for Flickstorm, San Francisco

---> viewing link

THE TRAILER

DVD not available



"OUT OF THE WOODS" (2015; recut in 2021) 



"OUT OF THE WOODS" (2015/final cut in 2021; 87 min.) A Drama of Magical Realism.
A former professional Mentalist is interviewed by a documentary filmmaker about how he
came upon his mind-reading talents after a fatal fall in the forest and how he mysteriously
came back to life but with amnesia. Wandering the dark woods, he hears disembodied voices
until discovering they are actually the thoughts of those he encounters along the way. OUT OF
THE WOODS
 follows one man’s journey down the rabbit hole of haunted dreams, weird luck,
and worldly ambitions to discover his true nature and...his one true love. Soundtrack by Sylvi
Alli & others.
Edited with Chris Odell. Cinematography, screenplay, and direction by Antero.
Click images for production details.

Out of the Woods carries the virtues of Alli’s canon: handsome
cinematography, a screenplay that is not afraid to take the viewer into
difficult intellectual terrain (how often do you see an anthropomorphic
tree spirit in a contemporary film?) and devious flashes of dry humor,
particularly when Charlie is positioned into using his mentalist powers
for audiences. And Sylvi Alli, the filmmaker’s real-life and reel-life
collaborator, is here as the elusive forest entity and as one of the
creative forces on the haunting soundtrack.
- Phil Hall, NYC

---> viewing link

THE TRAILER

DVD available here



"THE BOOK OF JANE" (2013) 

 


"THE BOOK OF JANE" (2013; 117 min. color) An Urban Feminist Fable. Alice, a Professor
of Comparative Religion, is writing a book on pre-Hellenic goddess mythologies. One day she
meets Jane, an enigmatic homeless older woman who roams the university campus, sleeps
under a bridge, and rattles Alice with her disturbing insights. THE BOOK OF JANE is a fable of
three fiercely feminist women attempting to embody the values of an ancient culture but at a
cost none of them expected.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others. Edited with Chris Odell.
Cinematography, screenplay, and direction by Antero. Click images for production details.

"The central performances by Luna Olcott and Marianne Shine
are astonishing. The women brilliantly absorb the idiosyncratic
failings and triumphs of their respective characters, resulting in
a pair of in-depth creations resonating with a myriad of emotions.
The concepts raised in “The Book of Jane” are profound and often
complex, this film is also one of Alli’s crowning achievements."

-
Phil Hall for filmthreat.com (5 stars)

---> viewing link

EXCERPT #1
EXCERPT #2

DVD available here



"FLAMINGOS" (2012)

 


"FLAMINGOS" (2012 color; 90 min). An Outlaw Romance NoirTwin sisters Beatrice and
Zoe are in love with Ray, a bank robbing junkie obsessed with apocalyptic visions. Though
Beatrice and Ray are married, after a bank heist Ray absconds with free spirited Zoe to the
Flamingo motel where they plot their future together. Meanwhile, two mysterious entities
observe their hijinx from behind the veils of appearance. FLAMINGOS is a heady cocktail
chaser of amour fou, metaphysical mayhem and karmic retribution.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli
& others.
Edited with Chris Odell. Cinematography, screenplay, and direction by Antero.
Click images for production details.

FLAMINGOS is thoroughly remarkable in the way it packs dense,
engaging layers of honest emotional and spiritual musings in an
extremely constricting framework. Sometimes the most intense
spiritual journeys happen when one has nowhere to go."

Mike Everleth, Underground Film Journal, Los Angeles

---> viewing link

3 MIN. EXCERPT

DVD avaiable here



"TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS" (2011/recut in 2021)

 


"TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS" (2011/final cut 2021; 2 hours; color) A Zany Occult Thriller.
The elder Magus of the Thelemic Temple of Horus is on his deathbed when his biological son
fraudulently inherits The Temple. Jack Mason - a promising young sex magickian and rightful heir
to the Temple - plots revenge against the son. He soon enters a dizzying maze of underworld
encounters with professional psychopaths, desert brujas, and a twist of fate he never saw coming.
Or did he? Meanwhile, Jack assigns his two hot-headed apprentices the ego-corrosive ritual of going
into business as clowns. TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS is a harrowing, hilarious collision between
the contrary occult worlds of urban and rural sorcery. Based on a true story.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli
& others. Edited with Chris Odell. Cinematography, screenplay, and direction by Antero.

Click above images for production details.

"The complex, expertly constructed story involves a struggle
for succession, a murder, and a demonic possession. The twists
of the story kept me glued to the screen through several viewings.
Absolutely riveting, the cinematography is gorgeous, the film's great
depth and power will keep you thinking for a very long time."
- David Finkelstein for filmthreat.com (4 stars out of 5), NYC, NY

---> viewing link

THE OPENING SCENE (3 min.)

THE TRAILER

 
Nudity, sexual situations, drug use.

DVD available here



"THE INVISIBLE FOREST" (2008) 

 


"THE INVISIBLE FOREST" (2008; 111 min.; color) A Paratheatrical Docufiction. Alex, an
experimental theatre director (Antero Alli), brings his troupe into a forest to explore his vision
of French Surrealist Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of ghosts, gods, and demons. In the woods,
Alex is haunted by disturbing dreams of Artaud as a caustic feral fashionista. With his sanity
pushed to its limits, Alex visits a psychotherapist who suggests hypnotic regression to remedy his
vexing problem. THE INVISIBLE FOREST follows Alex's journey through his Subconscious mind in
this chiefly improvised film inspired by Alli's deep history directing paratheatrical events.
Edited
with Chris Odell and d
irected by Antero. Additional text by William Shakespeare and Antonin Artaud.
 
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others. Click images for production details.

"The film incites and dares the viewer to let go of concepts and accept
the risky adventure of following the free, unimpeded energies of the
body and mind. Since, in real life, Alli is engaged in paratheatrical
research
, the film’s fictional story is constructed out of documentary
elements."
- David Finkelstein, filmthreat.com (4 stars), NYC NY

---> viewing link

THE TRAILER 

DVD available here



"THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE" (2007) 

 


"THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE" (2007; 91 min. color) An Anxious X-mas Comedy. 
A quirky Berkeley household - a heartbroken Astrologer, a closet Satanist, an Inuit opera singer,
a Gulf War vet, and a WebCast diva -
are forced to remain indoors during an alleged bioterrorist
attack
. Havoc and hilarity prevail as they all grasp for conclusions about what they think is happening
during their escalating uncertainty. THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE is a prescient tale mirroring
the anxiety of the current era of fear-based politics and government-imposed social restrictions.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others.
Edited with Chris Odell. Written & directed by Antero.
Click images for production details.

"Smart dialogue, compassionate and perceptive character writing,
a heightened sense of both the comic and dramatic potential of the
situation, and powerful performances all come together in a film where
comedy and drama serve as a means to explore the roots of what it means
to be human, and live in a dangerous and highly unpredictable world."

David Finkelstein, filmthreat.com (4 stars) NYC

---> viewing link

THE TRAILER 

DVD available here



"THE GREATER CIRCULATION" (2005) 



"THE GREATER CIRCULATION" (2005; 93 min. color and B&W) A Poetic Docufiction. 
Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, Paris 1908, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters
the ghost of his friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after birthing her first child.
In response to his loss, Rilke transforms his grief into an epic prose work, "Requiem for a Friend",
about a woman at the crossroads between Art and Motherhood. Meanwhile a hundred years later,
three women and their director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" as a performance ritual with
reverberations echoing between tje two centuries.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others. Edited with
Chris Odell. "Requiem for a Friend" in its entirety by Rainer Maria Rilke (Stephen Mitchell, trans.).
Screenplay & direction by Antero.
Click images for production details.

"…a deep, provocative and often disturbing drama which poses
questions of love, art, mortality and grief with the grace and
majesty of Rilke’s work,The Greater Circulation is among
Alli's finest works. Anyone seeking lessons on how to create a
wholly original work of motion picture genius can start here."

-
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of 5) NYC New York

---> viewing link


4 MIN. EXCERPT
3 MIN. EXCERPT

DVD available here



"UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON" (2003) 



"UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON" (2003; 96 min. color) An Ancestral Romance. 
The power of a long-buried family secret becomes unleashed when the extreme rituals
of a young punk rocker catapults his consciousness into the spirit realm in search of his
Finnish father, a ship captain who drowned in the Bering Sea. His father's mother was
a Sami sorceress whose shamanic powers were passed on to her grandson, powers
he uses as he navigates the dreams of his Finnish grandfather who lies comatose in
the hospital. Under a Shipwrecked Moon is a surrealistic fable of true love, ravens and
hedgehogs, and the mystical depths of ancestral bonds.
 Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others.
Edited with Chris Odell. Cinematography, screenplay, and direction by Antero.
Click images for production details.

Under a Shipwrecked Moon presents the classic mythic tale
of a hero on a vision quest, but places it in a naturalistic setting
where the fabulous and the visionary are seen as a part of daily
life providing a metaphorical guide to the forces underpinnings
life’s dramas. In doing so, Alli enables the viewer to build a bridge
between the quotidian and the visionary, the living and the dead.

- David Finkelstein, filmthreat.com (4 stars) NYC New York

---> viewing link

THE TEASER 

DVD available here



"HYSTERIA" (2002) 



"HYSTERIA" (2002; 83 min. color and B&W) A Magical Realist Drama. During the Serb-Croatian
war
(1991-95), Ikar - a young Catholic soldier - unwittingly drinks hallucinogenic datura tea triggering
a full blown vision (or hallucination?) of the Holy Virgin Mary who grants him a mission. To fulfill his
religious destiny, he migrates westward to Oakland California and starts pugilist training in preparation
for his incendiary apotheosis. HYSTERIA was made in early 2002 in response to the rampant racial
profiling of Middle Eastern people
after the 9/11 attacks in NYC. Written and produced by Antero Alli
and Jakob Bokulich (who also plays Ikar). Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others. Edited with Chris Odell.

Cinematography and direction by Antero
. Click images for production details.

HYSTERIA is a profound and frequently disturbing work
of intelligence that forces viewers to weigh in on emotional
issues that haunted America as a result of the tragic events
of 9/11: the damage created by religious dogma, the terror
in dealing with inner fears, and the inability to justify a societal
mind frame built on a foundation of selfish behavior.

-
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of 5) NYC New York

---> viewing link

TRAILER #1
TRAILER #2

DVD available here



"ROADKILL" (2001) 




"ROADKILL" (2001; 26 min, B&W) MAX & CLIO (Paul D'Addario and Carla Negri) are madly in love, mad about each other and mad at each other. They inspire each other's obsessions. She is an artist and must draw him; he wants her and must have her. Theirs is a love of... exquisite annoyance. PAULA & OTTO (Susan Schramm and Dana Bergeman) are peas in a pod, compatible in love and their work as successful nature photographers. Their pictures hang in an art gallery until the Art dealer (Jean Mazzei) drops them. ROADKILL is an a deep look-see into two types of intimacy between two couples; parallel lives sometimes meet. ROADKILL was improvised on site based on story and character ideas by Antero. Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others. Edited with Andrew Damon. Cinematography & directed by Antero. Click images for production details.

"...uncomfortable and cathartic, not unlike the feeling of gazing up a car crash:
a difficult sight to behold, but also too intriguing not to look at and there is also
the hidden sensation of knowing the heavy damage belongs to someone else;
an excellent short film."
(4 stars out of five) - PHIL HALL, filmthreat.com
Click this for the entire review

---> viewing link

DVD not available



"TRAGOS" (2000) 

 


"TRAGOS" (2000/01; 105 min. B&W w/colorA Cyber-Noir Witch Hunt.   An urban tribe of
technopagans
perform their ecstatic rites in "Tragos", a virtual reality program. One night their
leader, Bella Luxor, overamps the program and goes blind, while her sister Vivika is assimilated
into the program. Robert Logos, a fundamentalist Christian attorney views the tribe as a Satanic
suicide cult
and hires an unemployed actor to pose as a detective to secure their demise. TRAGOS
explores the modern tragedy of soul loss in a virtualized, hyper-digital society of spectacle.
Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli & others.
Edited with Chris Odell. Written & directed by Antero.
Click images for production details.

TRAGOS is an intellectual adrenaline rush of hypnotic strength
and emotional depth. Alli envisions a future where the desire to
escape from government and media thought-control drives people
underground. Though perhaps the future is a lot closer than we think,
since the parallels between Tragos' futuristic tale and the assault on
many basic contemporary liberties seems too close for comfort.
-
Phil Hall for filmthreat.com (4 stars out of 5) NYC New York

---> viewing link

EXCERPT #1 
EXCERPT #2

DVD available here



"LILY IN LIMBO" (1996)




"LILY IN LIMBO" (1996/2001; 26 min. color & B/W) A Poetry Film. Soon after we became mates
(1995), Sylvi underwent a profound spiritual crisis dissolving her sense of identity. I asked her if she
wanted to make a film together that might mirror her experience and maybe alleviate or transform
her existential angst. After some coaxing, she reluctantly
agreed to play the central (and only) role
in the film, her first ever appearance as a film actress. There was no script or screenplay. We didn't
feel we needed one since she was already living the story, the vision, of a soul trapped between worlds,
neither awake nor sleeping, wanting neither escape or saving. We were drawn to the refined symbolist
poetry of Hilda Doolittle (aka HD), as a floating narrative throughout Lily's internal landscape (voiced by
Sylvi and myself). This was our first true collaboration in a major project and remains one of my very
favorite films I've been privvy to be part of. - Antero Alli

"A (small) epic poem about a woman’s spiritual quest Liliy In Limbo is set to
excerpts from H.D.’s visionary poem “Trilogy.” A woman wavers between her
waking life and a complex dream she is trying to recall. The dream footage,
shot mostly on grainy, pulsating film, contrasts nicely with the crisp black and
white video imagery of her waking life.
The film ends with a stunning, poetic
sequence which depicts something I would have thought impossible
to capture
on film: the sensation when one lets go of preconceptions, and one is flooded
with a feeling of spiritual enlightenment.
--
David Finkelstein, filmthreat.com

----> viewing link

DVD available ("Loaded Visions")



"THE DRIVETIME" (1995)




"THE DRIVETIME" (1995; 86 min. color and B/W) A Cyber-Fi Experiment. In the hopes of
obtaining politically sensitive video footage of police riots, a federal archivist from the year 2023
uses a primitive Time Travel device to return to Seattle circa 1999 via the dreams of a video activist. 
THE DRIVETIME
was created during the birth of the internet within the seething underground Seattle
subculture
, circa 1995, four years before the 1999 WTO riots ignited mayhem in the streets there.
Edited with John Comerford. Written and produced with Rob Brezsny.
Cinematography and
direction by Antero
. Click images for production details.

"One of the most chilling yet innovative cinematic essays on
the flaws of today's technology-obsessed society. This work
should be seen by anyone who mistakenly believes that all's
calm and well in our little digital sphere. Alli's iconoclastic view
of a future world projects a dazzling stream-of-consciousness
skein of technical wizardry and provocative wordplay."

- WIRED Magazine

---> viewing link

EXCERPT #1
EXCERPT #2

DVD available here



"THE ORACLE" (1993; final cut 2021)




"THE ORACLE" (1993; recut in 2021; 58:30 min; color) A Poetic Bardo Drama. On the final
day of his life, a cynical patriarch lapses into an intermittent coma where his sleep is interrupted
by spontaneous mutterings. Much to the bewilderment of his anxious daughter tending his bedside,
his mutterances are pure poetry (from "The Book of Questions" by Pablo Neruda). His grandaughter,
Ariadne reappears in the internal landscape of his dreams as a guide to the great beyond. Meanwhile,
his estranged son Brandon visits him and finds himself participating in an unexpected ritual of ancestral
healing.
THE ORACLE is the filmmaker's debut feature made soon after the sudden daeth of his young
daughter, Zoe (see "Director's Notes" below).
Cinematography, editing, screenplay, and direction by
Antero.
Click images for production details.

The Oracle is a visionary exploration of an elderly bedridden man's
interior journey toward death and beyond. It's also a sometimes
humorous, sometimes heartrending portrayal of his family's changing
perceptions of the processes of death. The film resonates meaningfully
long after you've left the theater.
-
Paul Goetz, Washington Free Press

---> viewing link

5 MINUTE EXCERPT


DIRECTOR'S NOTES
"THE ORACLE", my debut feature art film was made six months after
the sudden death of my second daughter, Zoe. It was a collaboration
with her mother Camille Hildebrandt who also appears in the story as
a wandering nomad. A few years after its Seattle premiere, I took it
out of circulation as it felt too personal to keep sharing publically.

After watching it 25 years later, I felt that time had healed something
in me and I felt ready to share it again. Though this online version
suffers a bit from video compression and occasional uneven audio
quality, I'm surprised at how well it actually holds up. - Antero


DVD not available



The VideoPoems (since 1992)





"Fears", Rainer Maria Rilke (click image for video)

"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 with the ability to evoke
deep longings, exaltations, cultural memories, and altered spiritual states."

- David Finkelstein for filmthreat.com (4 stars) 



Rilke's Dream #1 - Rainer Maria Rilke and "A Poison Tree" - William Blake

---> The VideoPoems viewing links
LIVING WITH A SORCERESS (4:05; 2020) text, Antero Alli
MOUVEMENT (4:00; 2001) text, Arthur Rimbaud
FAIRY (4:00; 2000) text, Arthur Rimbaud
FEARS (8:30; 2001) text, Rainer Maria Rilke
REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND (19:36; 2005) text, Rainer Maria Rilke
RILKE'S DREAM #1 (3:00 2005) Rainer Maria Rilke
RILKE'S DREAM #2 (4:00; 2005) Rainer Maria Rilke
WITCH BURNING (4:00; 1994) text, Sylvia Plath
BOOK OF QUESTIONS (6:00; 1993) text, Pablo Neruda
BOMBS & PRAYERS (6: 00; 1993/96) text, Rob Brezsny
THE ANGEL (4 min. 2018) text, William Blake
A POISON TREE (3:41; 2018); text, William Blake
BLACK SEA (4:00; 1992); text, Antero Alli


DVD available of most of the VideoPoems



Non-commercial Music Videos (since 2013 )
Songs by bird&wolf (Antero & Sylvi) & Others





"A WIDER LIGHT" (2019) bird&wolf music video

---> bird&wolf Music Videos viewing links
Sylvi Alli, vocals, accordian & lyrics; Antero Alli, guitar & video

These "music videos" betray the commercial agendas of traditional
music videos with their slick overly-produced, multiple fast cuts of
the featured singer, musician or band. By deconstructing the genre,
I was free to follow the creative impulse. The music and songs in
these videos are by individuals and bands I personally know who
granted me permission to interpret their music in this way.
-
Antero



"UNDER" (2018) Sylvi Alli and ParaTheatrical ReSearch

---> Other Music Video viewing links
Science of Deduction, Michelle Bellerose, Sylvi Alli

DVDs not available



Experimental Short Works
under 33 minutes (1992-2023)




"COLD FORCE" (1993) and
JIZO GARDEN/DIAMOND SUTRA (2020; 2:42)

Since 1992, I've been creating short videos that don't really fall
into any existing categories besides maybe 'experimental.' These
fifteen videos (titles listed below link) include descriptions on how
each one developed as a specific experiment.
- Antero

---> Experimental Shorts viewing links
THE CELEBRANTS (2023; 32 min)
THE BEACH TRILOGY (2021; 3 shorts, under 3 min. each)
WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS (2021; 8:44)
PEARLS & PERILS OF COURTING THE MUSES (2020; 9 min.)
THE ZEN OF ASTRAL TRAVEL (2020; 5:11.)
JIZO GARDEN/DIAMOND SUTRA (2020; 2:42.)
MARIONETTE (2015; 3:48)
THE ANIMA (2008-15; 4:32)
ROADKILL (2001; 25 min)
LILY IN LIMBO (1996/ recut 2001; 26 min)
THE RECKONING (1993/recut 2020; 4:07)
INERTIA (1994; 16 min.)
COLD FORCE (1993; 4 min.)
DRIVING MYSELF THERE (1992/recut 2020; 7:53)
THE WORD, WEIRD (1992; 5:38 min.)

DVDs not available



ParaTheatrical ReSearch
VIDEO DOCUMENTS
(1991-2023)




"Escape from Chapel Perilous" Portland OR - December 2018

ParaTheatrical ReSearch refers to a process of group ritual dynamics
inspired by the early work of Jerzy Grotowski that gives visceral, somatic
expression to Carl Jung's "active imagination" for making the Unconscious,
conscious.
Whenever a given group reached
proficiency in this work, public
performances were developed with participants and directed by myself and
then, documented in videos for online and public screenings.
-- Antero

---> ParaTheatrical ReSearch viewing links
INNERVIEW (2023; 2 hrs. 14 min.) Parts 1, 2, & 3.
4 STAGES OF WORK (2020; 10 min.)
ESCAPE FROM CHAPEL PERILOUS (2018; 59 min.)
FALLEN MONSTERS (2018; 64 min.)
SOROR MYSTICA (2017; 42 min.)
BARDOVILLE (2017; 3 min.)
A TURBULENCE OF MUSES (2016; 39 min)
DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY (2012; 80 min)
ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM (2004; 84 min)
CRUX (1999; 80 min.)
ARCHAIC COMMUNITY (1991; 87 min.)



ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

 


ANTERO ALLI was born 11/11/1952 in Helsinki, Finland where he maintains citizenship. In 1993, he began writing and directing his idiosyncratic feature films reflecting his deep history in experimental theatre (since 1975). His films have been extensively reviewed at filmthreat.com and screened on the west coast arthouse circuit since 1995. Between 1992 and 2002, he curated the Nomad VideoFilm Festival, a pacific coast touring venue of experimental shorts. In 2015, he took a five year hiatus from making films to directing five intermedia performance rituals and creating a series of music videos as bird&wolf with his long term collaborator/partner, Sylvi. Antero returned to cinema in 2020 with "The Vanishing Field", in 2021 with "The Alchemy of Sulphur", in 2022 with "Tracer", and his fnal film, "Blue Fire in 2023. Antero is also the author of numerous esoteric books and the creator of ParaTheatrical ReSearch, an exploration of asocial group ritual dynamics and experimental theatre. Films made after 2010 were chiefly inspired by his experiences with the Muses Dialogue through the group ritual experiments of Paratheatre. A dedicated forest walker, he resides near several forests in SW Portland with his wife, the singer/musician Sylvi Alli.




VIDEO INTERVIEW (April 2, 2023), VISION STATEMENT, FILMOGRAPHY,
DVD SALES & DISTRIBUTION, "A CINEMA OF OTHERNESS",
I.M.D.b, FACEBOOK, EMAIL CONTACT

 

 


"The Alchemy of Sulphur" (2021; 107 min.)

April 2, 2023 Video (Zoom) Interview
Antero discusses his filmmaking process in-depth

FILMOGRAPHY and VENUE HISTORY
Movie catalog and where these films have screened

VISION STATEMENT 
"Why I Make Movies"



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"The Greater Circulation" (2005; 93 min.)

DVD Sales and Distribution
The Original Falcon Press

DVD Rentals
Movie Madness, Portland OR

"A Cinema of Otherness"
Subverting Mainstream Values & Standards

 

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