First publicity for the festival held in Bath in UK. Much more to come on this I think ...
Magickal Film Festival
Invention Arts Cafe
Sunday, 8th October, 2006
This festival is a collection of Magickal Films, spanning the cult, the vintage, the arthouse and the contemporary. It will be held in the Invention Arts Studio, Bath.. There's good public transport links, and easy parking (free on Sundays). Click the links for directions.
Doors open at 12:30, with various showings continuing until 20:00.
Day Pass: £12 / £10 Concession (available on the door)
Half Day Pass: £5.(available on the door from 15:50)
Films will include:
The new film "The Choronzon Machine" by the Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company, written and directed by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule and Rain Fish Wolf. In this ritual theatrickal-musical device we call The Choronzon Machine the Audience follow the Fool's' journey through the Great Wheel of the Taro/Rota, as he cycles through different refractions of Self as reflected through the archetypes of the Major Arcana;
An inaugural showing of Fabulator Films most recent work, "All In The Mind";
Marc Aitken's cult classic film "Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving": Edwardian England, and a man who has been to the brink of sanity and only partly returned. A man who has been traumatised by the horror of the First World War and returns, changed: A gentleman addict. During his chemical odyssey, his mind opens to the metaphysical world, with distorted memories of the trenches, the ghostly spectre of Crowley, an actress with whom he once fell in love and the nurse who saved his life in the trenches but who administered the first grains of his addiction;
"Crossing the Styx", a short film by Mongoose to recognise the 58th anniversary of the death of Aleister Crowley. The music is unique to this film and the visuals take the viewer on a psychedelic journey to the very edge of The River of the Damned with The Great Beast;
"Lucifer Rising", a Kenneth Anger film, dominated by figures in awesome landscapes through which he captures angels and marvels of the natural world. Bobby Beausoleils music was recorded in Tracy Prison, where he was serving time for his involvement with Charles Manson and the Sharon Tate killings.
"Bell, Book and Candle" (Colombia), Directed by Richard Quinn, Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak & Jack Lemmon. Meet Gillian Holyroyd, Greenwich Village's most seductive sorceress. Powerful, glamorous and a wee bit bored, Gillian knows that witches can't fall in love. So when she discovers her new neighbour is the fiancée of an old college nemesis, events lead to a romantic complication that couldn't have been foreseen...
Reviews, a selection of Screenshots, and a Timetable of the showings can be found here.
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