VERTICAL POOL PRESENTS
AN ANTERO ALLI VIDEO FEATURE
THE MIND IS
A LIAR AND
A WHORE. 
JUST YOUR TYPICAL BERKELEY CALIFORNIA HOUSEHOLD
(Scroll down to bottom of page for synopsis)
a dark comedy
NO PUBLIC SCREENINGS SCHEDULED AT THIS TIME
DVD AVAILABLE
"This film offers many of the virtues found throughout Alli’s canon: subversively funny dialogue, an inventive musical score by his reel-life/real-life collaborator Sylvi Alli, and the ability to connect loose threads of intellectualism and emotions into a body of maturity and grace. The challenge of perceived and genuine threats posed in this film clearly parallels the logic that lead to the Iraqi fiasco (the phony insistence of WMD and Saddam Hussein’s al-Qaeda support); it also reminds us that no one was ever arrested for the anthrax poisoning of the U.S. postal system in 2003." -- filmthreat.com
CASSIE POWELL
the webcast diva
"I am not an image. Click my image and see for yourself!"
xx
DAVID GAUNTLETT
the fanatical lovelorn astrologer
"Your life purpose is delineated in your astrology chart."
BRADY M. WOOLERY
the Satanic chess master
"Conscience is a curse on the will to pleasure!"
xx
DUNCAN COOK
the mysterious live-in boyfriend
"Have you ever considered the true nature of beer?"
ALAN READE
the Gulf War vet landlord
"They call it Gulf War Syndrome because it doesn't exist."
REBEKAH L. BARNETT
the Inuit opera singer
"The Inuit people have this ritual for harvesting whales."
NICK WALKER
the CDC Man aka the Pathological Liar
"I hear Guantanamo Bay is lovely this time of year."
MELISSA BELLOFF
the girl who wanted to be Napolean
"We think stuff over and over, again, and it scares us."
also featuring...
PAT PARKER as The Grandmother
SHAUNA ROGAN as Herself
JEFE HANDY as the TV News Anchor
JENNIFER BRUCE as the C.D.C. Authority
SYNOPSIS
A typical Berkeley household is forced indoors during an unexpected citywide lockdown initiated by the federal government. Ona, a webcast diva with her own show, thinks the feds are shifting into a fullblown police state. Her roomies think she's paranoid. Havoc and hilarity unravel as they all race to their own conclusions about what they think is happening during their current state of escalating uncertainty.
DEDICATION, CREW, PRODUCTION NOTES
dedicated to
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
(1932-2007)
Writer/Director: Antero Alli
Producers: Antero Alli and Sylvi Alli
Director of Photography: Chris Rasmussen
Editors: Chris Odell (online) and Antero Alli (offline)
Production Manager & Research Assistant: Jennifer Bruce
Executive Producer: Vertical Pool Productions
Soundtrack: Sylvi Alli
MP3 music file; "I am Afraid"
by Plan Z Media
Production Details
Video Format: HDV (color)
Auxiliary Video: mini-DV (B/W)
Total hours work footage: 13
...Running time:
92 minutes
Genre: narrative fiction ...Edited on Final Cut Pro.
Production Assistants
Duncan Cook,
Jennifer Bruce,
Brice Lemke,
Chris Odell
Antero Alli at I.M.D.b xxxx Director's journal notes for this film
filmographyxVxx vision statement xxxx San Francisco Chronicle interview
This is the seventh narrative feature for the Finnish born, Berkeley-based
underground filmmaker. Though he doubts he has a mainstream bone in his body,
his
playfully subversive films have garnered consistent critical praise at
prestigious
filmthreat.com. Public screenings of his films are rare (though dvds
are
available). When they do exhibit, they are most often seen inside the
pacific coast arthouse cinemas
of Seattle, Portland, S.F. Bay Area,
Sacramento
and
Los Angeles. He currently lives in
Berkeley CA with his wife, composer and
singer
Sylvi Alli.
THE MIND IS A LIAR AND A WHORE: THE DVD
contacts for Antero Alli:
noform@paratheatrical.com
(510) 464-4640