World Premiere THE ALCHEMY OF SULPHER, an Antero Alli Film
World Premiere THE ALCHEMY OF SULPHER, an Antero Alli Film
Showtimes
One Night Only!!!
Helia Rasti as "Hope"
Hope is a dedicated writer on a deadline to finish a short fiction story for ArtLit, a prestigious NYC literary magazine.
Benjamin Ervin as "Ben"
Ben accuses Hope of manufacturing crises in their relationship to spur her creativity as he tries in vain to break up with her.
Helia Rasti as "Helen"
Hope's alter ego in the story she is writing, the child-like Helen
is an amateur birder and mythologist who falls in love with Phineas, the central character in her story.
Douglas Allen as "Phineas"
A figment of Hope's imagination, Phineas is a quiet dendrologist, a scholar of trees, on a mission to save a large grove of dying oaks.
Douglas Allen as "Keith"
Keith is an avant garde performer passing through town when he encounters Hope and is intrigued by her wild imagination.
Cynthia Schwell as "Calliope"
A socially primitive elder woman with strange chanting powers who encounters Hope while gathering psychoactive plants in the forest.
Sylvi Alli as "Callista"
Callista is part of an occult sisterhood with Calliope who believes Hope may be another seer amongst them.
with Robert D'esposito
as "Gary at Art Lit" and
"The Uber Passenger."
Hope is writing a short story for ArtLit magazine. When she decides to write herself into the narrative as a character who falls in love with the story's central character, her real world boyfriend relationship starts to unravel. Meanwhile in a nearby forest Hope encounters two witches who take a sudden interest in her.
"The Alchemy of Sulphur" explores the creative process as an insurrection of the Poetic Imagination poised at the crossroads between Life and Art.