The Greater Circulation by Antero Alli

Thu, Jan 19
7pm and 9pm (two screenings)
$6-12.

My latest feature film is a cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria
Rilke's epic lament, "Requiem For a Friend" (the Stephen Micthell
translation). There were several daunting challenges to creating a
film using Rilke's words, the least of which was staying true to the
ineffable spirit his poetry conveys. There was also the issue of
density. Rilke's "Requiem For a Friend" is exceedingly rich with
ideas, feelings, and images. To fully hear and assimilate these
impressions, I needed to create more space between his powerful
thoughts. To do this I structured the screenplay to present his
"Requiem" in segments and throughout the film interspersed the
dialogues of characters in the present day drama who were staging his
lament, while Rilke himself was writing it a hundred years earlier in
a Paris hotel room! Time dissolves in dreams and in Rilke's dreams
feminine muses appear using the personas of the present day
performers to speak to him and inspire him. The reality of 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 that the only art that comes from "conscious mind" is dead art.
-- Antero Alli

ps: I will be at both 7pm and 9pm screenings for those wishing to
discuss it afterwards

- Antero Alli

Venue:

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St (and 23rd)
San Francisco

http://www.redpoppyarthouse.org/

on the corner of Folsom and 23rd Street In the Mission district

Additional Info:

510-464-4640
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