À la mémoire de Peter Martin Christopherson (1955 – 2010), a.k.a. Sleazy (Throbbing Gristle, Coil & Psychic TV) décédé mercredi dernier.
Coil ‘The Wheel’ de l’album Scatology (1984).
Official video of Coil (1985) directed by Peter Christopherson
We are saddened to announce the death of Peter Christopherson. Sleazy passed away peacefully in his sleep on the 24th November 2010 at his home in Bankok.
This video presents The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft and gives a glimpse of what is on display there.
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Kenneth Anger, filmed in 1954 (Anger created two other versions of this film in 1966 and the late 1970s), USA, 38 min
A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the Great Beast and the Scarlet Woman are part of a visual feast of images superimposed, hallucinations, and the spirit of decadence of the « Yellow ’90s. » Mythological images from Aleister Crowley, cabalistic symbols, artifice, and magic combine to render the pleasure dome both as prison and as celebration.
Transubstantiation
Charles Chadwick, USA, 2010, 8 min
A film with ritual as its central concept. Transsubstanciation is a process by which something ethereal is made material by an act of consciousness, by definition within Catholic ritual. This film seeks to create a permeability of forms and embodiment between painting, direct manipulation of the films’ surface, and physical alteration of its human subjects, with the transformative possibilities of ritual at the core. Film by CHARLES CHADWICK, in collaboration with painter Steven Leyba, and film diva Alexis Perez. This is the latest edit.
Clip de Visa de Censure n°X de PIERRE CLEMENTI, film tourné en 1967, finalisé en 1975 et sorti en 1976. Musique de Yvan Coaquette et Cyril Verdeaux, Chanson de Valérie Lagrange. PIERRE CLEMENTI était non seulement un acteur lumineux et mystérieux, mais aussi un réalisateur talentueux de films expérimentaux. PIERRE CLEMENTI a rendu l’âme le lundi 27 décembre 1999 à l’hôpital Cochin, Paris.
