VERTICAL POOL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

(2000; 105 min.)

"An audacious and chilling parable that questions misdirected
over-reliance on gadgets and God, the parallels between Alli's
futuristic tale and the assault on many basic contemporary liberties
seems too close for comfort." Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (four stars)

BARBARA JASPERSEN as Bella Luxor

Underground San Francisco, 2012. An urban tribe of technopagans practice their
ecstatic rites inside a virtual reality realm called "Tragos". One night their leader,
Bella Luxor, overworks the VR program and awakens blind. Her sister clandestinely
uses the device as a suicide machine and does not wake up at all.

 

BOBBY WEINAPPLE as the Prosecutor (left)
and NEIL HOWARD as the Unemployed Actor (right)

Bella chooses to surrender herself to murder but the fundamentalist Christian
prosecutor assigned to her case fails to secure a conviction. Bella is released
and the failed prosecutor becomes obsessed with her cult and recruits a mole,
an unemployed actor, to bring their demise. Through surprise twists and
turns, a cyber-noir witch hunt unfolds to reveal a deeper
story of love and redemption.

 

ROBERT HAMM as Alexander Luxor

 

"Totally absorbing and intellectually stimulating, TRAGOS sheds an eerie
and healthily disturbing light on the mass-hypnotic-narcotic programming
that we are all subliminally subjected to, in what we deludedly
refer to as 'everyday reality'." -- Ralph Metzner, Ph.D