The History of the Devil (2007) by GREG MOODIE

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The History of the Devil
Greg Moodie, Australia, 2007, 52 min


Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan… He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the traditional evil come from? The History of the Devil goes back to the ancient Middle East, even before the Old Testament to find the roots of Satan. The answer is in the ancient Mesopotamia. In Zoroastrianism it was believed that the all-knowing good God was Ahura Mazda, the one Uncreated Creator, and Ahriman was his antithesis, the God of chaos, the dark and evil one. Probably the bases of these teachings like heaven and hell, good and evil were transferred to the other monotheistic religions …

The Reunion of the Free Spirits in the Search of the Lost Sacred présenté à la galerie SAS, Montréal p.Q.

Publié le par Liturgie Apocryphe

The Free Spirits in the Search of the Lost Sacred présenté à la galerie SAS, Montréal p.Q.

The Reunion of the Free Spirits in the Search of the Lost Sacred
Présentée du 22 Novembre 2012 au 19 Janvier 2013 à la galerie [sas], Montréal p.Q.
Vernissage le 22 novembre à 17:30


Galerie [sas] 372, Sainte-Catherine Ouest suite 416
Montréal (Qc) H3B 1A2
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This is a Reunion of all those who hunt this universe for the sacred


This exhibition is for those who, reeling forth on cosmic wheels, propelled from the heart by lashes of wind and fire, seek to draw out, with claws, with fingers like feathers, touching grace, spinning the leather wheel of the infinite road trip into the blinding ring, glimpses of fur darting past the edges of civilization, seen from the corners of silver screen eyes, sew glistening seeds before the scathing sunsets of dawns dripping with dew, a foundation of crystal roots. This is for the warriors of light who hold trembling temptation at bay, who are driven, haunted by the need to transform the empire of conformity, by making persistent gestures of new ocean scapes.


We are a euphoric beast resurrected for an emergency. We are a multi-media tribe of Free Spirits sacrificing everything for the future of the screaming human soul. We invite you to step in, we embrace you with the circle of fire we must fuel to keep alive.


If we burn with the pleasure of creation, we owe it to the ancestors who sacrificed everything to keep the channels overflowing with endless emanations of the truth. Transported to us by open souls, these are the delicate and powerful rhythms we seek to reveal in ways that speak to our present vital hunger ; and which provoke the potential in each of us to destroy walls that block the radiation of this energy.


Through alchemical experimentation, we devise rituals in our free temple laboratory, demonstrating ways to channel the Lost Sacred wisdom into contexts of modernity.


We raise our overflowing crucibles, and our double-edged swords of Compassion and Resistance, to our vision, to our revolution : to daring to believe that art will create universal peace.


WE WILL RESTORE THE MYTHS IN A JOYFUL CRY OF LIBERATION

Marjoe (1972) by HOWARD SMITH & SARAH KERNOCHAN

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Marjoe
Howard Smith & Sarah Kernochan, USA, 1972, 88 min

 

Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money off him up until the point he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer; he spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud a small fortune out of individuals both through tent revivals and televangelism.

Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his ways, offering the documentary film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour. The film contains scenes from genuine revival meetings showing Gortner preaching and praying for people, interspersed with footage of Gortner admitting on camera that he was a non-believer and revealing the tactics used by himself and other evangelists to manipulate people. – WIKI

 

Marjoe (1972) by HOWARD SMITH & SARAH KERNOCHAN

Deliver Us From Evil (2006) by AMY J. BERG

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Deliver Us From Evil
Amy J. Berg, USA, 2006, 101 min


The film chronicles Catholic priest Oliver O’Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California between the late 1970s and early 1990s. After being convicted of child molestation and serving seven years in prison, O’Grady was deported to his native Ireland, where Berg interviewed him in 2005.

Additionally, the film presents trial documents, videotaped depositions, and interviews with activists, theologians, psychologists and lawyers which suggest that not only were Church officials aware of O’Grady’s crimes, they actively took steps to conceal them. – WIKI


Deliver Us From Evil (2006) by AMY J. BERG