"THE GREATER CIRCULATION"
(2005; 93 min., USA) a film by Antero Alli
a cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's epic lament
"Requiem For a Friend" (as translated by Stephen Mitchell).
Feb. 9, Oakland
Feb. 12, Sacramento
Feb. 13, Nevada City
Feb. 19, Port Townsend WA
Feb. 22, Seattle
Feb. 24, Portland
VENUE and SCEDULE INFO at:
www.verticalpool.com/tgcshows.html
"...a deep, provocative and often disturbing drama which poses questions
of love, art, mortality and grief with the grace and majesty of Rilke’s work as
a vehicle for expressing the mix of emotions in losing a loved one...astonishing"
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of five)
for entire review, visit:
www.filmthreat.com/index.php
Movie site: htp://www.verticalpool.com/tgc.html
Film clip: fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html
SYNOPSIS
Tethered to the netherworld of ghosts, muses, and dreams, a poet transforms
his lament over the tragic death and loss of his friend and fellow artist into an
epic work of literature. In 1908 Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem For a Friend"
over two dream-filled nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later an
experimental theatre group in Berkeley California prepares to stage his “Requiem”
as an avante garde performance ritual. Time dissolves as impressions of the
contemporary era begin haunting Rilke's night dreams and consequently,
inspiring the creative processes of writing his tribute to artist Paula Becker, who
unexpectedly died eighteen days after birthing her first child. Part bio-pic and
narrative fiction, “The Greater Circulation” is a cinematic treatment of Rilke’s
powerful prose addressing the central drama of all women who feel torn
between sacrificing their lives to their Art or to Motherhood.
(2005; 93 min., USA) a film by Antero Alli
a cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's epic lament
"Requiem For a Friend" (as translated by Stephen Mitchell).
Feb. 9, Oakland
Feb. 12, Sacramento
Feb. 13, Nevada City
Feb. 19, Port Townsend WA
Feb. 22, Seattle
Feb. 24, Portland
VENUE and SCEDULE INFO at:
www.verticalpool.com/tgcshows.html
"...a deep, provocative and often disturbing drama which poses questions
of love, art, mortality and grief with the grace and majesty of Rilke’s work as
a vehicle for expressing the mix of emotions in losing a loved one...astonishing"
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com (5 stars out of five)
for entire review, visit:
www.filmthreat.com/index.php
Movie site: htp://www.verticalpool.com/tgc.html
Film clip: fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html
SYNOPSIS
Tethered to the netherworld of ghosts, muses, and dreams, a poet transforms
his lament over the tragic death and loss of his friend and fellow artist into an
epic work of literature. In 1908 Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his "Requiem For a Friend"
over two dream-filled nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later an
experimental theatre group in Berkeley California prepares to stage his “Requiem”
as an avante garde performance ritual. Time dissolves as impressions of the
contemporary era begin haunting Rilke's night dreams and consequently,
inspiring the creative processes of writing his tribute to artist Paula Becker, who
unexpectedly died eighteen days after birthing her first child. Part bio-pic and
narrative fiction, “The Greater Circulation” is a cinematic treatment of Rilke’s
powerful prose addressing the central drama of all women who feel torn
between sacrificing their lives to their Art or to Motherhood.
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Sat, February 4, 2006 - 6:04 PMPS, sorry; didn't mean to come off like another spamster
I'm a filmmaker into dreams. This is my sixth feature fiction that I have directed and written the screenplay for. I am also featured as the voiceover of the poet Rilke. The film explores the power of dreams to inspire and scare the living daylights back into us. Dreams and how they act on our conscious waking lives has always fascinated me, especially those influences that carry on from the dream world into the creation of art, poetry and cinema. In my own dreams, I have been shown how the only art that comes from "conscious mind" is dead art. My aim in making films is to bring something of what dreams have shown me back into the world of people. You can see an example of what I mean at this clip:
www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html
-sherpa
(aka Antero Alli)
