On the nights of June 5th and 6th, Antero Alli will be in Eugene and Portland (respectively) premiering my newest film, "The Invisible Forest", a feature-length experimental
narrative where he also plays the lead.

ParaTheatrical ReSearch presents "THE INVISIBLE FOREST", A Film by Antero Alli (2008; 111 mn. USA). Filmmaker in person.

THURS. JUNE 5, 9pm, $5.
DIVA CENTER, 110 W. Broadway, Eugene

FRI. JUNE 6, 9:30pm, $6.50
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE, 4122 NE Sandy, Portland

The Trailer (3 min.)

SYNOPSIS

A sleep-deprived theatre director undergoes hypnotic regression to stop a reoccurring nightmare and unexpectedly participates in an ancient dreamtime ritual that sends him through the labyrinths of madness and transcendence in Antero Alli's surrealistic journey, "The Invisible Forest".

Inspired by the radical ideas of French playwright Antonin Artaud, the filmmaker also borrows from Rimbaud's poetics of delirium for the "deliberate disorientation of the senses" to achieve a series of altered states. In Alli's own words, "Cinema is a drug. If some movies put us to sleep like
tranquilizers and others jack us up like triple espressos, The Invisible Forest is a 100% organic, user-friendly hallucinogen".

This film reviewed

The Invisible Forest site

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