Antero and Sylvi, 2007 (photo by Dan Wilson)
Antero and Sylvi, 2007 (photo by Dan Wilson)
ANTERO ALLI and SYLVI ALLI
Antero and Sylvi have been in artistic collaboration since 1989 when they first met in Seattle WA. In the summer of 1996, they moved to Berkeley and established Vertical Pool Productions for solo projects, joint ventures, and collaborating with local talent, crew and venues. Their most recent feature film collaboration, "The Invisible Forest" (2008; 111 min.), was inspired by the radical ideas of French Surrealist Antonin Artaud. Here in early 2010, Sylvi is in production with her fifth CD of original music, while Antero is busy with paratheatre, teaching astrology, and promoting his new book, "The Eight-Circuit Brain".
SYLVI ALLI (b. 5/25/1953; San Antonio, Texas)
After extensive training in classical piano, Sylvi turned to painting and between 1976-93, her art was shown in galleries in the U.S. and Europe. In 1989, she began her journey into ambient/industrial electronic music and in 1995, she started singing. These elements soon combined in the development of soundtracks for dance, theatre and cinema. Sylvi has scored the songs and music for most of Antero's films & theatre since 1989. In 1996, she designed and published "The Vertical Oracle" (a neo-Tarot deck) and starred in "Lily in Limbo", a 27-minute poetry film. Her music CDs include "Too Near the Ghosts", "Dream of the Blue Moth", "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" and "A Hundred Birds". Sylvi has been a core member of ParaTheatrical ReSearch since 1996 and has appeared in numerous films that she also co-produced with her husband ("Tragos", "Hysteria", "Under a Shipwrecked Moon", "The Greater Circulation" and "The Invisible Forest"). Sylvi also teaches women's singing classes and leads Embodied Voice workshops.
SYLVI @ MySpace
inc. music and song samples
ANTERO ALLI (b. 11/11/1952; Helsinki, Finland)
Between 1975 and 2005, Antero wrote, directed, produced a series of original theatre works. Since 1977, he has been developing a paratheatre medium combining techniques of physical theatre, dance, voice and Zazen towards asocial group ritual dynamics (documented in his book,"Towards an Archeology of the Soul" and three videos) and contunes as the founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch. In 1980, Antero performed with his band The Frozen Beauties throughout the S.F. bay area while writing his first book, "Angel Tech". Between 1991-95, Alli was editor/publisher of Talking Raven Quarterly, an iconoclastic literary journal in Seattle WA. From 1992 to 2002, Antero and Sylvi curated the Nomad VideoFilm Festival, a west coast touring venue for experimental shorts. Between 1993 and 2008, he wrote and directed eleven feature-length art films (now available on dvd). Antero is a practicing astrologer and the author of eight books, some of which serve as texts for courses he occasionally teaches online.
ANTERO @ Wikipedia
inc. filmography, bibliography
CONTACT POINTS
electronic mail for sylvi
electronic mail for antero
Vertical
Pool Productions
PO Box 7518, Berkeley CA USA 94707
voicemail: (510) 464-4640