ANTERO ALLI ~ filmography
Features Catalog (1993-2023) and Video Experiments (since 1991)
ANTERO was born 11/11/1952 in Helsinki, Finland where he maintains citizenship. In 1993, he began writing and directing his idiosyncratic feature films in a personal style bearing an imprint of his deep history with experimental theatre (since 1975). Between 1995 and 2015, his films screened across multiple venues in the SF Bay area and along the USA west coast arthouse circuit. His films have been extensively reviewed at the popular film review site, filmthreat.com. Between 1992 and 2002, he curated the Nomad VideoFilm Festival, a west coast touring venue of experimental shorts. In 2015, he relocated to Portland OR and took a five year hiatus from making films to direct five ParaTheatrical ReSearch productions while also producing music videos with his longtime partner and collaborator, Sylvi. Antero returned to cinema in 2020 with "The Vanishing Field", in 2021 with "The Alchemy of Sulphur" and in 2022 with "Tracer", which premiered Sept. 20th to a full house at Portland's Clinton Street Theatre. His final film , Blue Fire, premiered September 21, 2023 at Clinton Street Theater in Portland OR, celebrating the end of 30 year era and 16 features
Vision Statement
Towards an Insurrection of the Poetic Imagination
Feature-length Narratives
ALL IMAGES BELOW LINK TO PRODUCTION DETAILS
All features available on DVD except "The Vanishing Field" and "The Oracle"
"BLUE FIRE"
(2023; 90 min.). A Cyber-Fi Fever Dream (9/21 premiere)
An elite A.I.coder faces a head-on collision between the
algorithms of the VR worlds he's creating and the archetypal
dimensions of the greater Collective Unconscious. THE TEASER
"TRACER"
(2022; 93 min.) A Psi-Fi Noir Suspense. THE TRAILER - Reviews
A former gunrunner's past catches up to him when his nocturnal
dreams begin taking on form and new meaning in his daytime life
when a Russian mafia psychic uses remote viewing to find him.
"THE ALCHEMY OF SULPHUR"
(2021; 107 min.) An Imaginal Romance. TRAILER -- Reviews.
In her attempt to escape heartbreak, a writer writes herself into
a short story as a romantic character resulting in unforeseen real
world repercussions catalyzing her spiritual awakening.
"THE VANISHING FIELD"
(2020; 72 min.) A Monastic Drama. TRAILER -- Reviews
Disenchanted with the corruption of society, vlogger Jakob X
joins a Zen monastery where he has a spontaneous out of body
experience meditating that rattles the very core of his being.
"OUT OF THE WOODS"
(2015/final cut, 2021; 87 min.) A Magical Realist Drama. TRAILER.
Sharing his life story with a documentary filmmaker, a former
professional mentalist confides how he died and came back to life
with an uncanny talent for reading the minds of others. Reviewed.
"THE BOOK OF JANE"
(2013; 117 min.) An Urban Feminist Fable 4 min. excerpt -- Reviews
A Professor of Comparative Religion is researching pre-Hellenic goddess
mythologies when she meets Jane, an enigmatic older woman who roams
the campus, sleeps under a bridge, rattles the professor with her insights.
"FLAMINGOS"
(2012; 90 min.) An Outlaw Romance Noir TRAILER -- Reviews
Twin sisters Beatrice and Zoe are in love with Ray, a bank robbing junkie
obsessed with apocalyptic visions. Ray is married to Beatrice but absconds
with Zoe to the Flamingo motel where they plot their escape from America.
"TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS"
(2011; 2 hrs.) An Occult Vengeance Tale. Reviews -- Opening Scene
The elder Magus of an occult order is on his deathbed when his estranged
son fraudulently inherits his temple. Outraged, the true temple heir plots
revenge throughout the rival worlds of urban sorcery and rural witchcraft.
"THE INVISIBLE FOREST"
(2008; 111 min.) An Experimental Docufiction - TRAILER -- Reviews
An experimental theatre director brings his troupe into a forest to explore
French Surrealist Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of ghosts, gods, and
demons when his nightmares compel him to enter hypnotherapy.
"THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE"
(2007; 92 min). An Anxious X-mas Comedy. TRAILER -- Reviews
Havoc and hilarity ensue when a heartbroken Astrologer, a closet Satanist,
an Inuit opera singer, a Gulf War vet, and a WebCast diva are stuck indoors
during a citywide lock down caused by an alleged bioterrorist attack.
"THE GREATER CIRCULATION"
(2005; 93 min.) A Poetic Docufiction - watch 9 min. excerpt - Reviews
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.
One hundred years later, three women stage Rilke's epic lament "Requiem for
a Friend" (inspired by Paula's death) as an avant garde performance.
"UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON"
(2003; 96 min.) An Ancestral Family Drama. TEASER -- Reviews
The power of a long-buried family secret is unleashed when the extreme
rituals of a young punk rocker catapult him into the spirit realm in search
of his father, a Finnish ship captain recently drowned in the Bering Sea.
"HYSTERIA"
(2002; 83 min.) A Post-9/11 Suspense. TRAILER -- Reviews
During the Serb-Croatian war 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 dangerous mission.
"TRAGOS"
(2000/01; 105 min.) A Cyber-Noir Witch Hunt - Excerpt -- Reviews
An urban tribe of technopagans perform their ecstatic rites in "Tragos",
a virtual reality program when one of their own dies in the process and
a fundamentalist Christian attorney pursues them as a Satanic suicide cult.
"THE DRIVETIME"
(1995; 86 min.) Cyber-Fi Experimental 3 min. excerpt -- Reviews
In the hopes of obtaining politically sensitive video footage of police riots,
a federal archivist from the year 2023 uses a flawed Time Travel device
to return to Seattle circa 1999 via the dreams of a video activist.
"THE ORACLE"
(1993; 59 min.) A Family Bardo Story. 5 min. excerpt - Reviewed.
On the final day of his life, a cynical patriarch lapses into a coma where
his grandaughter Ariadne appears as his guide through the afterlife.
~ VIDEO EXPERIMENTS ~
ParaTheatrical ReSearch Video Documents (since 1991),
The VideoPoems (since 1992), Experimental Shorts (since 1993),
bird&wolf Music Videos (since 2017). Other Music Videos (since 2013)
NOTE: only The VideoPoems are available on DVD
