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.

Next year’s summer solstice at Stonehenge will be the first at which Druidry has been officially recognised as a religion

 

 

 

Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission

 

Druidry is to become the first pagan practice to be given official recognition as a religion.

 

The Charity Commission has accepted that druids’ worship of natural spirits could be seen as religious activity.

 

The Druid Network’s charitable status entitles it to tax breaks, but the organization says it does not earn enough to benefit from this.

 

The commission says the network’s work in promoting druidry as a religion is in the public interest.

 

The move comes thousands of years after the first druids worshipped in Britain.

 

Druidry was one the first known spiritual practices in Britain, and druids existed in Celtic societies elsewhere in Europe as well.

 
 

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Black & White footage of the Museum Of Witchcraft in the late 1960`s whilst it was under the ownership of CECIL WILLIAMSON.