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Berkeley filmmaker Antero Alli’s newest feature returns to the post-911 terrain of his 2002 film “Hysteria” in this hilariously twisted tale of a household of dreamers whose lives are unexpectedly interrupted by an alleged bioterrorist attack in their city.  Ona, a webcast diva with her own show, thinks the feds are staging this attack to shift into a fullblown police state.  Her roomies think she’s paranoid.   During a 48-hour citywide biohazard lockdown, they are all forced to come to their own conclusions about what is happening during their current state of escalating uncertainty. (USA. 2007; 92 min. HD video)  With Cassie Powell, Brady M. Woolery, Bekah Barnett, David Gauntlett, Duncan Cook, Alan Reade, Nick Walker and Pat Parker.  Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli.  Written and directed by Antero Alli (in person).

The movie site:
http://www.verticalpool.com/themindmovie.html

“The Mind is a Liar and a Whore” is Antero’s seventh self-produced feature film. Though he doubts he has a mainstream bone in his body,  Alli’s playfully subversive films have garnered consistent critical praise at prestigious filmthreat.com.  Filmography includes: “The Greater Circulation” (2005), “Orphans of Delirium” (2004), “Under a Shipwrecked Moon” (2003), “Hysteria” (2002) “Tragos” (2001), and “The
Drivetime” (1995).

Alli vision statement:
http://www.verticalpool.com/aavision1.html

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The series of wars in the Balkans that marked the violent breakup of Yugoslavia held international attention for a while. No longer in the limelight of spectacular tragedies, what can be learned from this region about the lasting challenges of social reconstruction? What can be learned from the oversights of international projects for “peace building?”

*Disposable Heroes* visits seven war veterans of the Balkans who share their common experiences of battle, their firsthand confrontations with the madness of war, and their struggles as veterans to rebuild a normal existence.  Since the end of the conflict in 1999, Kosovo has existed ambiguously as a Politically Undefined Province, governed by the United Nations and policed by NATO forces.

The film *Whose Security? * looks at how these international efforts to build security and peace largely overlook the day-to-day issues that face Kosovar women. Such considerations are particularly important at this present time as Kosovo’s future status is being negotiated.

*Kosovo Son-in-Law,* a comedic TV sketch aired weekly on Kosovar public television, is about an American immigrant in Kosovo who attempts to solve all of Kosovo’s problems to gain the acceptance of his Kosovar father-in-law.Several sketches reveal the naivety of this foreign peace-making perspective, as our hero takes on the challenges of reconciliation and the question of Kosovo’s independence.

The final film of the screening, *Not Drawn to Scale * takes us to the battlegrounds of Iraq. Appropriating images filmed by American soldiers in Iraq that have been uploaded onto the internet as blogs, this film  inquires into the politics of  representation as well as its limitations.

Crossing Bridges Productions is a Kosovo based film and TV production studio focused on creating films which address the most pressing social issues in Kosovar and Balkan society.  Films tackling issues of the politics of post-war nation building, particularly those pertaining to women, have recently been screened at international film festivals in Berlin, New York, Prague, and Sarajevo.

www.crossingbridges.org

www.myspace.com/xingbridges

XAMBUCA is the ongoing solo project of a one Chandra Shukla. The approaches to what make XAMBUCA unique are that they are ever changing and dependent on whosoever XAMBUCA collaborates with. Often categorized as “noise” or “experimental,” there is no assurance that XAMBUCA’s next sonic attempt will have anything to do remotely with those presumptive associations. If anything XAMBUCA stays true to the tradition of the musique concrète approach in that it strives to begin with anything that is sound, regardless of its source. Whether found or instrumental, XAMBUCA experiments with them and abstracts them into musical compositions. XAMBUCA has its own homemade recording label entitled, EROTOTOX DECODINGS, which has thus far only released a rare number of cdrs into the public.

http://www.myspace.com/xambuca
http://www.erototoxdecodings.com

SUTEKH is internationally known for his twisted interpretation of the minimal techno paradigm, causing a reaction in audiences that combines confusion and awkwardness with an irresistible urge to dance. For his performance at ATA, he will be dropping the irresistible urge (and his laptop), leaving only confusion and awkwardness behind.

http://www.context.fm/artists_sutekh.html
http://myspace.com/sutekh2

MAGNETIC STRIPPER is the Noisecore/Electro A/V experiment of San Francisco Performer James F. Ellis.

“Too Satanic for Christians……. Too Christian for Satanists……. Loved by none, hated by all!”
 
http://www.myspace.com/magneticstripper