A theater troupe camps out in a forest to perform their director's vision of Antonin Artaud's magic theater of ghosts, gods and spirits. During their forest experiment Alex, the director, is haunted by disturbing dreams where Artaud appears and mocks his ambitions. When these strange nightmares persist, Alex stops sleeping in an attempt to regain control over his mind. Sleep-deprived and with his sanity pushed to its limits, he seeks help from a Psychotherapist who suggests hypnosis as a means to uncover the source of his problems. What follows is a psychic journey through the internal landscape of Alex's subconscious memories and dreams, a sojourn that leads us to a place beyond belief, beyond words, and beyond the mind itself.
1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.
A VideoPoem by Antero Alli adapting Arthur Rimbaud's poem "Movement" as translated by Louise Varese and read by Alli.
Experimental short. Words, voice, videography & editing by Antero Alli. Performances improvised by Jyl Brewer and Ed Byrne. Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli.
Antero Alli was born in Helsinki Finland, November 11, 1952, where he maintains citizenship. He has authored numerous esoteric books on experimental theatre, astrology and Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he has conducted workshops and staged paratheatrical productions, some of which have been released as video documents.
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