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In late 1908 Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his “Requiem For a Friend”over two fevered nights at the Hotel Biron in Paris. A hundred years later a paratheatre group in Berkeley California prepares to stage his “Requiem”as a performance ritual.  Time dissolves as impressions of the contemporary era begin haunting Rilke’s night dreams and consequently, inspiring the creative processes of writing this tribute to his friend, the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who unexpectedly died eighteen days after birthing her first child.  “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, shot on equal parts HD video and super 8 film.

film clip:
http://fractalvideo.com/HTML/TGCFV.html

link to filmthreat.com review
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8150

about the filmmaker

Antero Alli is a Berkeley-based underground filmmaker with seven features to his credit including “Hysteria”, “Tragos” and “Under a Shipwrecked Moon”.  He is also director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch, a group of ritualists and performers dedicated to asocial ritual dynamics. Read his vision statement at:
http://www.verticalpool.com/aavision1.html

ATA presents an evening of blistering yet lovely BrutalSFX noise with a solo set of noise guitar from Leavenworth’s Daniel Hintz. Also appearing are acclaimed noise artists Oscillating Innards and Xome.

Daniel Hintz (a.k.a. Cactus), is a writer, guitarist, and radio d.j., based in San Francisco. Hintz, was born November 2, 1964, in San Francisco. He grew up in California and later Wisconsin, and began playing music in bands in Milwaukee in 1981. Most of Hintz’s older DIY recordings are now long out-of-print, and even back then were initially only circulated in small batches of anywhere from 25-1,000 copies, owing to their decidedly non-commercial and typically lo-fi nature. Several new recordings of Hintz’s more recent noisy and droning and sometimes violent experimental guitar works are currently in production, and are slated for release in 2005.

Xome is a harsh noise music project conceived and operated by Bob Scott. Xome first started experimenting with dissonant forms of music in 1989 but the first organized live performance in Tokyo in 1994 marks the true activation of the project. Now based in San Francisco, Xome has evolved into a highly refined and extremely harsh noise music unit by means of improvised manipulation of sound processing equipment. Past Xome performances have shared the same bill with artists such as Incapacitants, C.C.C.C., Killer Bug, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Seiichi Yamamoto, (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba), Violent Onsen Geisha, Pain Jerk, Death Squad, Government Alpha, TV Pow, Daniel Menche, Kazumoto Endo, K2, Emil Beaulieau, Melt Banana, MSBR, Stimbox, Prurient, Thomas Dimuzio, Cock E.S.P., Pedestrian Deposit, Black Leather Jesus, T.E.F., Sickness, Pop Culture Rape Victim, Vertonen, Guilty Connector and many, many more.

  Utilizing evocative color saturation and image mutation, Gault’s optically printed films reveal psychosomatic illnesses of American culture. Including :

PICTURE #4 (’93, 6m) “a wry appropriation from his psychotherapist’s Thematic Apperception Test”-Village Voice.
HOUSESITTING (’99, 16m), whose “drift of images pulls the viewer along at a phantomlike remove from personal and cultural connection”-L.A. Weekly.
 NOT TOO MUCH REMEMBER (‘04,11m) “at once sublime and frightening, this found footage masterpiece illustrates the perverse means by which narrative shapes our consciousness”-Slant Magazine.

Gault, who will be present for Q&A, creates “a cinematic poetry of paranoia as a higher state of consciousness”-Film Threat.