The Invisible Forest
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$24.95 |
Product Information
| Format: | DVD |
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| Discs: | 1 |
| Duration: | 111 minutes |
| Year: | 2008 |
Description
A theatre troupe camps out in a forest to perform their director's vision of Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of ghosts, gods and spirits. During their forest experiment Alex (Antero Alli), 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 phantasmagorical 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.
"If you view cinema as a drug, most movies out there act on the audience like tranquilizers or triple espressos, either lulling us to sleep or spiking our nerves. In this light, The Invisible Forest is a 100% organic user-friendly hallucinogen. In The Invisible Forest I apply Arthur Rimbaud's poetics of delirium for the 'deliberate disorientation of the senses' to achieve a series of altered states."Editorial Reviews
The Invisible Forest is full of treasures. It is able to depict those elusive mental states which prove so hard to remember or describe when we awaken from dreams. This film incites and dares the viewer to let go of concepts and accept the risky adventure of following the free, unimpeded energies of the body and mind.
David Finkelstein Read the full review
If you are fan of arthouse cinema, the colourful works of Kenneth Anger, or the nightmarish delirium of Lynch's Inland Empire, then this film might just be the ticket. It is raw, it is impulsive, and it is rarely crystal clear. I found myself enthralled, buoyant and persistently impressed.
Ken Eakins Read the full review
The onscreen presence of Alli makes this film particularly special...his ALEX is enigmatic, sardonic, arrogant, insightful, joyful - an unpretentious but still portentous portrait of the sort of the irascible, multidimensional artist who is not content to make myths but to provoke the nameless forces behind myth, and to bid them intrude.
Erik Davis
Underground Cinema Bundle
As an added bonus, get FOR FREE:
 | Paratheatre: A Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation A Comprehensive Interview with Author/Ritualist Antero Alli |
 | An Interview with Antero Alli |
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As an added bonus, get FOR FREE:
| Paratheatre: A Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation A Comprehensive Interview with Author/Ritualist Antero Alli |
| An Interview with Antero Alli |
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About the Author
Antero Alli
Antero Alli is the author of Astrologik; Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman’s Guide to Reality Selection; The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body; Towards an Archeology of the Soul; The Akashic Record Player: A Non-Stop Geomantic Conspiracy; A Modern Shaman's Guide to a Pregnant Universe (with C.S. Hyatt); The Vertical Oracle (with Sylvi Pickering-Alli); and State of Emergence: Experiments in Group Ritual Dynamics. Antero is also a practicing astrologer, a prolific underground filmmaker, and an experimental theatre director.