(2003; 96 min.)
VERTICAL
POOL PRODUCTIONS
presents
(2003;
96 min.)
Written,
directed & photographed by Antero Alli
Completed Oct. 2003. 96 minutes. Color & B/W. Stereo.
"Under
a Shipwrecked Moon" triumphs in Alli's extraordinary
dream
and
hallucination sequences. Mixing the shaman traditions
of Finland's
folklore
with daring theatrical experiments, and capping the
visuals with
a
haunting score
created and performed by his real-life collaborator
Sylvi
Alli (whose beautiful
screen presence is used to its fullest as the shaman),
the film's
landscape of mists,
monsters and mysteries is so artistically
overwhelming
that it makes
"The Cremaster Cycle" look like
"The
Lizzie McGuire Movie."
--
PHIL
HALL, NYC film critic
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NOTE:
These dvds are DVD-Rs and play on most DVD decks and
computers in USA and Canada
manufactured after 2000. If this DVD fails to play
in your deck or computer, you can return it for
a full refund OR request a pristine VHS or SVHS video
copy from the digital master. This is not a
large commercial company but a single artist with
the means to produce a very limited supply
of video and dvd duplications from my DVCAM masters. -- ANTERO ALLI
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UNDER
A SHIPWRECKED MOON (USA.
2003; 96 min. Antero Alli)
An elderly
Finnish man plans to reunite with his family after
leaving them fifteen years
earlier
when his son,
a ship's captain, drowned in a shipwreck in the
Bering Sea. Unknown
to
the family
is the true parentage
of the dead son: the woman he believed to be as
his
mother was actually
the midwife who delivered
him when his real mother, a mysterious
shaman died in
childbirth.
The midwife later married the child's
father and pretended the
child was hers. However,
the
shaman's mystical powers seem to have been inherited
by
the dead captain's son Jari, an
American slacker
who is uncertain if the increasingly bizarre
visions
he experiences while in a
narcotized state are the
result of his drug intake or another
force. The
elder Finn's sudden lapse
into a coma brings the
family together and provides the
internal landscape
where his dreams
and memories collide with his grandson's
shamanic journey.
THE CAST, THE CREW and THE MOVIE HOME PAGE
THE SOUNDTRACK and ON THE MAKING OF "MOON"
OTHER FILMS BY ANTERO ALLI ON DVD
Antero
Alli's deep background of writing and directing for
experimental theatre
(1975-present) informs his filmmaking processes (since
1990) with a unique dramatic
aesthetic and cinematic language all his own. Up until
these self-produced dvds, his
films have only been seen in limited one-to-two night
screenings in the smaller west
coast arthouse cinemas of Seattle, Portland, the S.F.
area, Sacramento and L.A..
He
resides in Berkeley with his wife, co-producer/soundtrack
composer, Sylvi
Alli.
UNDERGROUND FILMMAKER INTERVIEW
from "The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies" by Phil Hall (2004)
VISION
STATEMENT and
FILMOGRAPHY
"A
Few Hundred Words on Why I Create" -- Completed
works, clips, reviews
PARATHEATRE
BIO
Early
training, ongoing development and list of theatre
works produced
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Antero Alli, director/producer