Regards sur l’occultisme (1re partie) – Magie et miracles
Guy L. Coté, Canada, 1965, 58 min 16 s

Dans ce long métrage documentaire, des cartomanciennes, voyantes, astrologues et guérisseurs livrent leurs opinions. Des autorités en sciences occultes telles que Robert Amadou, Philippe Encausse, fils du célèbre Papus, et André Barbault, jettent une lumière sur le sujet.

Regards sur l’occultisme (2e partie) – Science et esprits
Guy L. Côté, Canada, 1965, 58 min 16 s

Ce long métrage documentaire présente quelques données sur la suggestion, l’autosuggestion, l’affabulation inconsciente et l’automatisme psychologique avec R.P. Réginald-Omez, O.P., exorciste vivant à Paris et parapsychologue. Le film expose également la différence entre les messes noires et le vampirisme.

The Power of the Witch
Produced by Oliver Hunkin for the BBC (commissioned by the religion department of the BBC), UK, 1971, 50 min

An extremely rare documentary about Witchcraft aired once in the UK in 1971. Featuring contributions from Eleanor Bone, Cecil Williamson, Alex & Maxine Sanders, Doreen Valiente (…) along with a stellar cast of old-school occultists and Wiccans. It also highlights a famous unsolved murder of Charles Walton on Meon Hill Gloucestershire in 1945 which was believed by many to be a blood sacrifice at the very end of WWII.

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Häxan (1922) by BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN (June 20, 2013)
The Occult Experience (1985) by FRANK HEIMANS (January 13, 2012)
Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri (1969) by LUIGI SCATTINI (March 25, 2011)

The Magick of Solomon: Lemegeton Secrets
Poke Runyon, USA, 1996, 85 min

Anthropologist and Ceremonial Magician, POKE RUNYON explains and demonstrates the authentic techniques of ancient Ritual Magick. Learn how to invoke Angels and evoke Spirits to visible appearance. Stand in the Magick Circle with Masters of the Art as they conjure the Spirits of Bael and Astaroth (Baal and Astarte) to visible appearance in the Dark Mirror upon Solomon’s Triangle. Discover the scientific truth and psychological validity behind our own culture’s unique and powerful form of Shamanism …

The Rites of Magick
Poke Runyon, USA, 2005, 90 min

The Secret Rites, Magical Empowerments and Powerful Techniques of a Magical Tradition older than the Golden Dawn’s Cypher Manuscript. Accompany your host, anthropologist and ceremonial magician POKE RUNYON, as he conducts you on a Magical journey into the hitherto Secret Realms of Hermetic Yoga (our Western counterpart to Tibetan Tantras), Magical Pathworkings (Inner Plane Projection), Seasonal Ceremonies (The Ancient Rites of Melchizedek) and Eucharist (the ultimate transubstantiation ritual) – and a complete Enochian Opening by Watchtowers ceremony. As a bonus feature we have included a short surrealistic Alchemical Fantasy by the talented avant-garde filmmaker Eric Bossick.

Now these are not your average Halloween costumes. For two years, French photographer CHARLES FRÉGER has been traveling throughout 19 European countries and trying to capture the spirit of what he calls “tribal Europe” in his “Wilder Mann” series. What he found was a huge array of pagan rituals, mainly related to the winter solstice and spring renewal, focusing on the common myth of the “wild man.”

It appears that the tradition of men dressing up as wild animals and monsters, which dates back to neolithic times and shamanism, is still very alive nowadays. The mythological figure of a “wild man” represents the complicated relationship humans have with nature and life and death cycles. His series explores the different interpretations of such figures – while some cultures depict him as covered in flowers or straws, others possess the features of bears, goats, or horned and hairy beasts.

CHARLES FRÉGER

Delve into the world of Witches and Wicked Bodies in this major new exhibition, on view at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art until November 3, 2013.

Discover how witches and witchcraft have been depicted by artists over the past 500 years, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya and William Blake, plus pieces by 20th century artists such as Paula Rego and Kiki Smith.

Through 16th and 17th century prints and drawings, learn how the advent of the printing press allowed artists and writers to share ideas, myths and fears about witches from country to country.

Including major works on loan from the British Museum, the National Gallery (London), Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum, as well as works from the Galleries’ own collections, Witches and Wicked Bodies will be an investigation of extremes, exploring the highly exaggerated ways in which witches have been represented, from hideous hags to beautiful seductresses.