Paratheatre Video Clips

Between 1992 and 2004, three full-length video documents were produced to offer extended glimpses into this paratheatre work. Though it may be impossible to capture the actual process on video, viewing these clips can bring a certain feeling or sense of what happened in these events (note: "Orphans of Delirium" was performed before a live audience; the other two videos we shot in total privacy). A fourth video document, "circa 2012", an instructional presentation of the "nuts & bolts" of this ritual technology, is due Autumn Equinox 2012. -- Antero

"ARCHAIC COMMUNITY" (1992)
LAB THEME: HOW RITUALS WORK WITHOUT DOGMA
The women access and maintain the power of Yin in the center,
as the men access the power of Yang at the periphery. Men circle
in towards the center but must await invitation from a woman to
enter the Yin Circle. Page 65 in "Towards an Archeology fo the Soul"
in this clip: Camille Hildebrandt, Meta Sean Dougherty, Joy Laughter
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"CRUX" (1999) clip #1
LAB THEME: THE CRUCIFIXION ARCHETYPE
Rituals were designed to expose the crux of what participants lived for,
not as any conceptual understanding but as gnosis or direct experience
of the answer and an embodiment of the question itself. Page 159 in
"Towards an Archeology fo the Soul"; also online at CRUX interview
In this clip: Kyra Auerbach, Julian Simeon, Sylvi Alli, Nick Walker,
Lea Bender, Diamid Baillie, and Marit Elverland.
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"CRUX" (1999) clip #2
LAB THEME: THE CRUCIFIXION ARCHETYPE
Rituals were designed to expose the crux of what participants lived for,
not as any conceptual understanding but as gnosis or direct experience
of the answer and an embodiment of the question itself. Page 159 in
"Towards an Archeology fo the Soul"; also online at CRUX interview
in this clip: Lea Bender, Nick Walker, Marit Elverland.
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"ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM" (2004)
LAB THEME: INITIATION
Rituals were developed to catalyze initiatic experience and the formation
of rituals of initiation itself, of exposing to the participants facets of Self
they had no previous knowledge and no maps or models to explain or guide
the experience. In this clip: Sereene Zloof, Paradox Pollack, Alaska Yamada,
Brian Livingston. Click this for Director's Ritual Journal
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NOTE: THE ABOVE CLIPS ARE EXCERPTS FROM FULL-LENGTH
VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD. FOR DETAILS, CLICK THIS.