ANTERO ALLI, videography
P.O. Box 10144 Berkeley CA 94709 USA
ph. (510) 464-4640; e-mail: [email protected]
All works written, directed, edited & produced by ANTERO ALLI (unless noted)
Music and soundtracks by SYLVI ALLI

ANTERO ALLI has written and directed ten feature-length fiction videos
which have toured the west coast arthouse circuit (and are now available
on dvd). Though his underground movies have never seen wide theatrical
release ("I don't have a mainstream bone in my body"), they continue
garnering critical praise for their originality, insight, and depth of imagination.
Antero is also an author of numerous books and founder of ParaTheatrical
ReSearch (since 1977), a center for group paratheatre work in Berkeley CA
where he resides with his wife, singer/composer Sylvi Alli. He is currently
promoting screenings for his outlaw romance movie, "FLAMINGOS".


Feature-Length Works
(70 minutes or longer)

"PARATHEATRICAL RESEARCH" (2012; 90 min.) a video document.
Autumn 2012 release

"FLAMINGOS" (2012; 90 min.) an outlaw romance noir.
Edited w/Chris Odell. Produced w/ Vertical Pool. Twin sisters are in love with
a bank robbing philosopher driven by visions of the end of the world. (mini-DV)

"TO DREAM OF FALLING UPWARDS" (2011; 125 min.) an occult thriller.
Edited w/Chris Odell. Produced w/ Hal Bahr. A Thelemic sex magickian seeks the help
of a reclusive medicine woman in the hopes of excorsizing his demon. (mini-DV)

"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