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Attaboy & Burke: "1000 Robots" (music video)

Producer/Director/DP/Editor: Chris Odell

 Attaboy and Burke are verbal dismantlers. A pair of expelled human cartoons backed up by bass, drums, percussion, turntables and alien technology. Their new EP, Atomic Batteries of Power, is out now, purchasable online at their website or in the outside world at Amoeba Records. It contains 4 of their songs and a live music video. The energy of the Beastie Boys. The rhythmic incantations of Soul Coughing. All doused in the theatrics of the immortal Devo and the uncanny Talking Heads(and the circa late 1970's cartoon "Voltron, Defender of the Universe").

."...like street corner messiahs, weaving chain-link fences out of words, keeping the crowd immobilized."
-SF Weekly

   

Couch Surfing (feature in production)

Writer/Producer/Director: Peter Hyoguchi

Producer/Editor: Chris Odell

 A comedy about religion and furniture.


 
 

The Invisible Forest (feature)

Writer/Producer/Director: Antero Alli

Editor: Chris Odell

Trailer: Mihoko Odell

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, the director, is haunted by a reoccurring dream where Artaud appears in a series of outrageous personas, mocking and deriding his theatrical ambitions. When these strange nightmares persist, Alex stops sleeping in the hopes of regaining control over his mind. Sleep-deprived and with his sanity pushed to its limits, he hires a Hypnotherapist to help him stop these dreams. 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.

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The Mind is a Liar and a Whore (feature)

Writer/Producer/Director: Antero Alli

Editor: Chris Odell

Trailer: Mihoko Odell

The routines of four roomates and their landlord are unexpectedly interrupted by the news of 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 bio-hazard lockdown, they are all forced to come to their own conclusions about what is happening during their current state of escalating uncertainty.

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The Greater Circulation (feature)

Writer/Producer/Director: Antero Alli

Editor: Chris Odell

"Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Requiem for a Friend” is the foundation for this marvelous drama from underground film legend Antero Alli. The film bifurcates between the tensions surrounding the theatrical staging of Rilke’s work and flashbacks to the pain and suffering
which Rilke experienced when creating his classic poem. Not unlike the best of Alli’s films, this production is a marvel of mature emotion and deep wisdom; few films have been able to explore the issues surrounding death with such grace and intelligence."
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com

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Under A Shipwrecked Moon (feature)

Writer/Producer/Director: Antero Alli

Editor: Chris Odell

Where "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" triumphs is in Alli's extraordinary dream and hallucination sequences. Even by the high standards created by the filmmaker in his stunning recent films "Tragos" (2000) and "Hysteria" (2002), "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" takes the imagination into new and daring realms that few artists could ever aspire to conceive....the film's landscape of mists, monsters and mysteries is so artistically overwhelming that it makes "The Cremaster Cycle" look like "The Lizzie McGuire Movie."
Phil Hall, filmthreat.com

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Hysteria (feature)

Writer/Producer/Director: Antero Alli

Editor: Chris Odell

....it isn’t just good performances that carry a film, especially an indie made on a shoestring budget such as this. The way Alli shot Hysteria, and Chris Odell edited it, the scenes are propelled forward from one into another with a kinetic energy that keeps the film from sinking into a quagmire of entropy, that also flows nicely--without looking like it was jumpcut by some old-school MTV fan who likes to wash down his Ritalin with Mountain Dew before working. Sacramento News & Review ..also (5 star review on FilmThreat.com)

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Tragos (feature)

Writer/Producer/Director: Antero Alli

Editor: Chris Odell

.Those familiar with Alli's previous work will recognize the hallmarks of his art: an extraordinary screenplay rich in soaring wordplay and searing plotlines, peerless editing which blends images into an all-encompassing audio-video collage, an intelligent production eye which works its low budget to high value -Phil Hall, filmthreat.com

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Five for Fighting: "100 Years"(music video)

Produced by: Wise Orchid Productions

Editor: Mihoko Odell

.Karaoke Music video produced for KSuperstar.com