ANTERO ALLI, filmography
(b. 11/11/1952; Helsinki, Finland)
P.O. Box 7518 Berkeley CA 94707 USA
ph. (510) 464-4640; e-mail: antero@paratheatrical.com

All works written, directed, edited & produced by ANTERO ALLI (unless noted)
Music and soundtrack by SYLVI ALLI

Antero Alli (b. 11/11/1952) is a Finnish born, Berkeley-based underground filmmaker whose works have exhibited at Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Portland Art Museum, UC Irvine Film Dept., Red Vic Movie House (S.F.), Mills College Concert Hall (Oakland), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), Hollywood Theatre (Portland) and other west coast arthouses. His soundtrack-driven movies often combine Super-8 film, innovative CGI and various video formats to explore mystical themes that defy easy categorization. Antero is also the founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch and an author of numerous books. He resides with his wife, the composer and singer Sylvi Alli, in Berkeley CA.

 

Feature-Length Works
(70 minutes or longer)

"THE INVISIBLE FOREST" (2008; 111 min.) experimental narrative fiction.
Edited w/Chris Odell. Produced w/ Sylvi Alli, Donna Farmer, Frank Janzad, Tara Candoli.
A theatre director obsessed with the ideas of Antonin Artaud is haunted by disturbing
dreams that lead him into hypnotherapy and a spiritual resurgence. Featuring the
filmmaker in the lead role. (Super-8 film, HDV and mini-DV)

"THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE" (2007; 92 min.) narrative fiction.
Edited w/Chris Odell and produced with Sylvi Alli. Four roommates, a live-in boyfriend
and their visiting landlord are forced to remain indoors during an unexpected citywide
lockdown initiated by the federal government. Havoc and hilarity unravel as they all
race to their own conclusions about what they think is happening during their current
state of escalating uncertainty. (HDV and mini-DV)

"THE GREATER CIRCULATION" (2005; 93 min.) narrative docufiction.
Edited w/Chris Odell and produced with Sylvi Alli and Jodie Evans. Based on poet
Rainer Maria's Rilke's "Requiem For a Friend" (as translated by Stephen Mitchell).
Tethered to the netherworld of ghosts, muses, and dreams, a poet transforms
his lament over the death of a fellow artist into an epic work of literature.
(Super-8 film, HDV)

"ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM" (2004; 84 min.) a paratheatre video document.
Edited w/Chris Odell. This experimental docudrama incorporates footage
from paratheatre performance experiments in Berkeley and S.F., March 2004
with candid discussions between Antero and two of the principal ritualists.
Based on Alli's book, Towards an Archeology of the Soul. (Vertical Pool, 2003).
(mini-DV)

”UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON” (2003; 96:00) narrative fiction.
Edited w/Chris Odell and produced with Sylvi Alli. A family saga. A self-made
shamanic punk rocker does extreme rituals to enter the spirit realm to find his
dead father with amusing and dangerous consequences. (Super-8 film, mini-DV)

”HYSTERIA” (2002; 83:00) a narrative fiction written w/Jakob Bokulich
and edited w/Chris Odell. Produced with Sylvi Alli. A post-9/11 suspense.
Frightened by the NYC terrorist attacks, Peri leaves Manhattan for Oakland to
live with her sister where they meet Ikar, a Croatian boxer and devout Catholic
haunted by disturbing visions and dreams of the Virgin Mary. (miniDV)

”TRAGOS” (2000/04; 106:00) a DV narrative fiction produced w/Sylvi Alli and
edited w/Chris Odell. A cyber-noir tragedy. The machinations of a covert police
state crack down on an urban tribe of techno-pagans who practice their ecstatic
rites in a virtual reality realm called Tragos. (mini-DV)

”CRUX” (1999; 80:00) an experimental paratheatre document co-scripted
w/participants. Eight ritualists explore the crux of what they are living for
through Alli’s non-performance oriented medium of group ritual dynamics.
More info at www.paratheatrical.com (mini-DV)

”THE DRIVETIME” (1995; 85:00) an experimental narrative.
Produced & written w/Rob Brezsny; edited w/J. Comerford. A time-travelling
federal librarian from 2023 returns to Seattle circa November 1999 to obtain
video footage of police riots in this stream-of-consciousness cyber-fi feature.
(Super- 8 film, BetaSP video, Hi-8 video)

”THE ORACLE” (1993; 70:00) a narrative fiction.
Integrating Pablo Neruda's "Book of Questions”. An elderly cynic sleeps through
his final day on Earth and in his dreams, finds a guide in his granddaughter
who ushers him through an unexpected afterlife .(Super- 8 film, 3/4 SP video)

”ARCHAIC COMMUNITY” (1991; 85:00) experimental paratheatre document.
Cinematography by Antero Alli and C. Pickering. Produced by ParaTheatrical ReSearch.
(hi-8 video)

 

Shorts & VideoPoems
under 45 minutes

*”LILY IN LIMBO” (2001; 27:00) poetry film produced & edited w/Sylvi; text by HD
*”INERTIA” (1994/2001; 21:00) experimental narrative video scripted w/ the actors
*”ROADKILL” (2001; 27:00) experimental DV narrative edited w/Andrew Damon;
*”REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND” (1991; 40:00) videopoem/docudrama. Text by Rainer
Maria Rilke (Stephen Mitchell, translator); produced & edited w/Paradigm Studios.
*FEARS (8:30; 2001) text by Rainer Maria Rilke; videopoem
*MOUVEMENT (4:00; 2001) text by Arthur Rimbaud; videopoem
*FAIRY (4:00; 2000) text by Arthur Rimbaud; videopoem
D.U.I. (8:30; 1994); experimental narrative video
ANTI-PHILOSOPHER (4:00; 1999) text by Tristan Tzara; videopoem
WITCH BURNING (4:00; 1998) text by Sylvia Plath; videopoem
SOME PASS THIS WAY (8:00; 1994) text by Sean Blosl; experimental
*COLD FORCE (4:00; 1994); experimental narrative video
THE WORD, WEIRD (6:00; 1994); a video lecture
*BOOK OF QUESTIONS (6:00; 1993) text by Pablo Neruda; videopoem
BOMBS & PRAYERS (6:00; 1993/96) text by Rob Brezsny; videopoem
*SKIN OF BIRCH (5:00; 1992) text by Pablo Neruda; videopoem
BLACK SEA (4:00; 1992); a lament for my daughter Zoe; videopoem

more links to reviews, trailers, credits, etc at:
www.verticalpool.com/filmography.html