The Greater Circulation, a dv-feature by Antero Alli

Thu, Nov 10
8:00pm - 11:00pm
$8. -$12. sliding scale

"THE GREATER CIRCULATION" (2005; 93 min.) is a feature film by Antero
Alli incorporating Rainer Maria Rilke's "Requiem For a
Friend" (translated by Stephen Mitchell).
Post-screening Q&A with director. Live music by Loop!Station
afterwards. This is a world premiere screening.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Tethered to the netherworld of ghosts, muses, and dreams, a poet
transforms his lament over the death of a friend and fellow artist
into an epic work of literature. In 1908 Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his
"Requiem For a Friend" over two harrowing nights in a Paris hotel
room. A century later, an experimental theatre group is staging his
text as a performance ritual. Time travels to and fro as impressions
and images of the contemporary era begin haunting Rilke's night
dreams, subsequently inspiring the creative processes of writing his
tribute to Paula Modersohn-Becker, who unexpectedly died soon after
giving birth to her first child.

about the filmmaker
www.verticalpool.com/aavision1.html

"Requiem For a Friend", the entire text
www.paratheatrical.com/requiemtext.html

Venue:

21 Grand
416 25th Street
Oakland
510-444-7263
http://www.21grand.org

416 25th street is near broadway and 25th, by "god's gym" near
downtown oakland; on the freeway, take west grand exit and drive to
broadway and turn left to 25th st.

Additional Info:

510-464-4640
http://www.verticalpool.com/tgc1.html