The Finnish patriarch (JOHN K. ROBERTS) whose dreams bring him closer to his true love.
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. When
he
unexpectedly enters the dreams of his
comatose Finnish grandfather,
he encounters a giant hedgehog who is, in real time, the grandfather's
miserly brother. Meanwhile the
family gathers around the bedside of
the
comatose
patriarch who dreams of Sisu, his long lost love
in this surreal
fable
of
the mystical
depths of family bonds. Featuring a lush soundtrack
by
the filmmaker's wife,
Sylvi Alli, who also plays the long lost love.
(2003; 96 min. USA. Written, directed & photographed by Antero Alli)
Sisu (SYLVI ALLI) and her son Timo, the ship captain (CHRISTOPHER TRIAN)
"There are suggestions of a Kalevalan spirit throughout 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."
-- HARRI SIITONEN -- NEW WORLD FINN
SYLVI ALLI as "Sisu"
""Shipwrecked Moon" is clearly my most personal film to date.
Combining stories my Finnish grandmother told me as a child
with my ongoing dream research and the memories of my own
psychedelic experimentations of the late sixties, I stumbled and
fell into a deep ancestral pool of timeless love and how a family
forms its own self-sustaining codes." ANTERO ALLI, director/writer
MP3
from the "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" soundtrack
Music & lyrics by Tim Buckley; arranged and sung by SYLVI ALLI
