VERTICAL POOL PRESENTS
THE MIND IS
A LIAR AND
A WHORE. 
JUST YOUR TYPICAL BERKELEY CALIFORNIA HOUSEHOLD
a dark farce by ANTERO ALLI
THE TRAILER
FLASH VERSION
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WEDNESDAY MAY 28, 7:30pm, $5.
HUMANIST HALL, 390 27th STREET, OAKLAND
Filmmaker in person.
"This film offers many of the virtues found throughout Alli’s canon: subversively funny dialogue (“Consciences are for wimps and anti-war protestors!”), 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." -- Phil Hall for filmthreat.com
CASSIE POWELL
the webcast diva
"I am not an image. Click me and see for yourself!"
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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!"
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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."
and with
NICK WALKER as the Pathological Liar
PAT PARKER as The Grandmother
SHAUNA ROGAN as Herself
JEFE HANDY as the TV News Anchor
JENNIFER BRUCE as the C.D.C. Authority
and featuring MELISSA BELLOFF
as the girl who wanted to be Napolean
"We think stuff over and over, again, and it scares us."
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.
THE CREW, THE PRODUCTION, THE DEDICATION
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; "Home on the Range "
from the soundtrack
by Sylvi Alli
Production Details
Videography Format: HD (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 and
Antero Alli
this film dedicated to
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
(1932-2007)
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Antero Alli at I.M.D.b xxxx Director's journal notes
filmographyxVVVxx vision statement
This is the seventh self-produced feature for the Finnish born, Berkeley-based
underground filmmaker. Though he doubts he has a mainstream bone in his body,
Antero's playfully subversive films have garnered consistent critical praise at
prestigious
filmthreat.com. Public screenings of his films are rare (though dvds
are
now
available)
but when they do exhibit, you can see them 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, who often develops
his soundtracks and occasionally acts in his films.
San Francisco Chronicle interviews the director (1/25/07)
contacts for Antero Alli:
noform@paratheatrical.com
(510) 464-4640