VERTICAL
POOL
presents
an
ANTERO ALLI video
(2001; 27 min.)
"...uncomfortable
and cathartic, not unlike the
feeling of
gazing up a car crash:
a difficult sight
to behold, but also
too intriguing not to look at
and
there is also
the hidden
sensation of knowing the heavy
damage belongs to
someone else;
...an excellent short film
(4 stars out of five)."
PHIL
HALL, filmthreat.com
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here for the entire review
director's notes
With
no script, we improvised the action
and
dialogue
within the parameters of two types
of love: friendship
and lust.
We discovered
unexpected parallels in the separate
lives
of
two distinctly different artist couples.
Best
pals PAULA & OTTO (Susan Schramm
and Dana
Bergeman)
are like peas in a pod, compatible in
love
and work
alike;
successful nature photographers,
their pictures
hang in an art
gallery until the art
dealer
(Jean Mazzei) calls
and drops them.
MAX & CLIO (Paul D'Addario
and Carla Negri) are
madly in love.
As mad about each other, as they
are mad
at each other;
they
inspire each other's
darkest obsessions. She must
draw him;
he must
have
her.
Theirs
is a love of...exquisite annoyance.
R o a d k i l l
(2001; 27:00)
featuring
CARLA
NEGRI
PAUL D'ADDARIO
SUSAN SCHRAMM
DANA BERGEMAN
JEAN
MAZZEI
Story
and characters conceived by ANTERO ALLI
and developed
with THE CAST (dialogue improvised
on
site
by the actors).
Soundtrack: SYLVI
ALLI
and others.
Edited by ANDREW DAMON.
Directed,
photographed & produced by ANTERO ALLI
