"...where "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" triumphs is Alli's extraordinary dream
and
hallucination sequences which take the imagination into new and daring
realms
that few artists could ever aspire to conceive..." PHIL HALL -- FILMTHEAT.COM
A RARE PUBLIC SCREENING SATURDAY APRIL 10th, 8pm FINNISH BROTHERHOOD HALL
1970 Chestnut (nr University Ave), Berkeley
Admission: $5 - $10. sliding scale. Filmmaker in person.
The comatose patriarch (JOHN K. ROBERTS) dreams of his true love (SYLVI ALLI)
The power of a long-buried family secret is unleashed when the
extreme
rituals
of a self-made shamanic punk rocker catapult him into the spirit
realm
in search of his father, a ship captain who drowned at sea. The son
accidentally enters the dreams of his
comatose Finnish grandfather
where
he takes on the form of a raven and encounters a giant hedgehog who is,
in waking
life, his miserly great
uncle.
A
surreal
fable
of true love and
the
mystical
depths
of
ancestral
bonds written, directed, and
photographed
by ANTERO ALLI with an original
soundtrack
by
SYLVI ALLI.
The Gambling Raven clan and Timo, the drowned ship captain (CHRISTOPHER TRIAN)
GABRIEL CARTER as Raven and RICHARD GOODMAN as Hedgehog
"There are suggestions of a Kalevalan spirit throughout "Under a Shipwrecked Moon". Animal spirits seen as ravens and hedgehogs dance around on a giant chessboard. The cinematography is excellent, changing continually along with the moods of the story. Arranged by the talented Sylvi Alli, a rich musical soundtrack drives the film and features her unique rendition of Sibelius' Finlandia on the piano." -- HARRI SIITONEN -- NEW WORLD FINN
click image for IMDb file ANTERO ALLI (b. 11/11/1952) is a Finnish born, West Coast-based underground filmmaker whose feature-length art films have garner critical praise at the prestigious filmthreat.com and which screen in rare, limited runs on the west coast arthouse circuit. Alli is also an author of numerous books on "reality-based metaphysics" and the founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch (since 1977), an ongoing exploration of group ritual dynamics that often informs and inspires his films. He resides with his wife, the singer/composer Sylvi Alli, in Berkeley CA.
