Ten Experimental VideoPoems
Wednesday March 24th. 7:30pm, $5.
THE HUMANIST HALL, 390 27th Street, Oakland
Filmmaker in person. Watch "Mouvement" a VideoPoem
(1996; 27:00) poetry by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
ALSO FEATURING
BOOK OF QUESTIONS (1993; 6:00), text by Pablo Neruda
COLD FORCE (1994; 4:00), text by Antero Alli
WITCH BURNING (1998; 4:00), text by Sylvi Plath
A.A. ANTI-PHILOSOPHER (1999; 4:00), text by Tristan Tzara
MOUVEMENT (2001; 4:00) and FAIRY (2001; 4:00), text by Arthur Rimbaud
D.U.I. (1991; 8:00) and THE WORD, WEIRD (1993; 6:30), text by Antero Alli
SOME PASS THIS WAY (1994; 8:00), text by Sean Blosl
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ANTI-PHILOSOPHER, text by Tzara; COLD FORCE, text by Alli; MOUVEMENT, text by Rimbaud
"...blazingly personal...the organically seething images of Alli's videopoems..."
Kelly Vance, EAST BAY EXPRESS
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Wednesday March 31st. 7:30pm, $5.
THE HUMANIST HALL, 390 27th Street, Oakland
Filmmaker in person. Watch a 3-minute excerpt
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A Poetic Docufiction. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem For a Friend" over two fevered nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later a paratheatre group in California prepares to stage his "Requiem" as a performance ritual. "The Greater Circulation" is a cinematic treatment of Rilke's powerful prose addressing the central drama of all women who feel torn between sacrificing their lives to their Art or to Motherhood.
"Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Requiem for a Friend” is the foundation for this
marvelous drama from underground film legend Antero Alli... this production
is a marvel of mature emotion and deep wisdom; few films have been able to
explore the issues surrounding death with such grace and intelligence."
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of five)
about the filmmaker
Antero Alli (b. 11/11/1952) is a Finnish born, Berkeley-based underground filmmaker whose deep background in paratheatre infuse his films with their idiosyncratic theatricality. His features screen during rare, limited runs in west coast arthouses and have garnered critical praise from the prestigious filmthreat.com. 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 inform and inspire his films. Antero resides with his wife, the singer/composer Sylvi Alli, in Berkeley CA. (click Antero's picture for his I.M.Db. profile)