Atherton, Dan Filmography

• The Atherton Project 2010, role: actor, character name: Himself Play in Full Screen

Atherton, Dan Filmography

• 3 Minute Gaps 2011, role: actor, character name: Himself Play in Full Screen

Atherton, Dan Filmography

• Prancer 1989, role: actor, character name: Town Man Play in Full Screen

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  The X-Files Soundtrack

  The method, as they call it, though it was more so a germ-line procedure of singular meta-scientific complexity, had been
  given to them by the alien colonists as a quid pro quo. The Syndicate would help them to create a population of alien hybrids
  who would hide in plain sight, cloned from human ova and alien bio-material, so there would be a clone race immune to the
  effects of the black oil when the return to the planet began. For this, the Syndicate would be sequestered, granted a sort of
  immunity or asylum, given a place in the grander scheme.
  They were the Vichy government to the German "Final Solution": collaborationists whose motivation was simple, self-directed
  survival. These cloning operations were spread across the country, the cataloging and record-keeping done through a complex
  intra-institutional system that connected to every branch of government, from the Social Security Administration to the
  Department of Defense.
  The operation, under the working title "Purity Control," had been launched in 1948, its original conception the brainchild
  of German scientists given immunity themselves for war crimes, and allowed to continue the eugenic experiments that were
  Hitler's dark legacy.
  The Syndicate had begun as a subset of a shadow intelligence agency whose original orders were to create plausible denial
  and an effective cover-up of Purity Control. But through 50 years, numerous U.S. and U.N. administrations, the principals
  began to wrest control, accumulating power and influence across international borders, such that - by 1990 - the operation
  ceased to have a member accountable to any one government and whose only orders would be taken from a man named Strughold, a
  German industrialist who had fled his homeland to northern Africa.
  These men, whose knowledge and access provided control of a foreseeable future, had, in spite of this, everything to lose.
  Their secret work, the cloning preparations and the cataloging constituted their greatest vulnerability: exposure. Their
  detection would ensure not just their own demise, but a far-reaching dissolution of social and religious order around the
  globe.
  To protect against this, the Syndicate employed methods of disinformation, using covert government programs that had been
  regrettably discovered, as a kind of smokescreen - a dodge or blind where the transgressions of Congress-accountable agencies
  served to hide their own more odious undertaking.
  They had even at times used the UFO phenomenon to create a hysteria that science and the intelligentsia denounced so
  completely as to make belief in believers seem ridiculous and completely discreditable.
  They had also, in a crisis, used a tool of the colonists themselves - alien bounty hunters who policed the cloning
  operations and enforced rule on the countdown to colonization. A double-edged sword whose cold-blooded tactics had helped to
  stem a leak or threat, but who also kept a watch on the Syndicate. A threat in itself, as the Syndicate had something to hide
  that not even the colonists knew of: a vaccine against the black oil, an inoculant against the substance in which the alien
  life force was held - in fact, the very medium of the life force itself.
  To guard this secret was perhaps even more critical than the truth of the existence of alien life, and of colonization. If
  the Syndicate's own secret vaccine were discovered, the vaccine that would make themselves immune from the effects of the
  black oil, they would certainly be destroyed and the timetable for colonization stepped up. They would protect this secret
  with their lives. They would kill to protect it, as it symbolized the only hope they had of avoiding enslavement when the
  planet was overtaken.
  That they had been able to, over decades, conduct their work on the vaccine undetected was the result of a code among the
  Syndicate members that put honor and the future above personal politics. But now this code was beginning to break down, an
  incipient scramble for power beginning to develop. A threat from within that doubled the threat from without: from agents
  Mulder and Scully, and the X-files.