Boo-Hooray just published a catalogue of materials on offer relating to the work of seminal avant-garde filmmaker and Crowley acolyte. Their newsletter says: “Boo-Hooray is proud to present our latest shortlist, gathering photography and ephemera spanning a wide range of… Continue Reading
Harry Smith Archives’ FB page posted this thang which utterly blew my mind: “Discovered quite a strange throwback in the archives: Harry in a Sotheby’s World Mastercard ad. From left: Jack Smith, unidentified man, Harry Smith, Panna Grady, William S.… Continue Reading
Judging by the FB posts, 95% of U.S. O.T.O. members are big fans of Neil Gaiman and very excited about the Netflix series based on his Sandman comic series. So here’s a phat interview with him in the New York… Continue Reading
Journalistic polymath Carl Abrahamsson has posted a new documentary film featuring a series of interviews he’s done with filmmaker/mage Kenneth Anger, Cinemagician – Conversations With Kenneth Anger. Starting in the late 1940’s Anger directed and released a series of avant-garde… Continue Reading
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema is a title in the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series, edited by Tessel M. Bauduin, Henrik Johnsson. The posted description says: “Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated… Continue Reading
Ashley Cowie announced on FB: “Our new film, The Beast of Lochness, aims to change the signal at #boleskinehouse by highlighting its lost history while dampening the uninformed hype. Scottish filmmaker @jimcharlesbrown from #b4films is currently editing #thebeastoflochness, which will… Continue Reading
One component of the recently opened Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa OK is a collection of musical recordings, books and periodicals amassed by the late EGC Bishop Harry Smith. The Center’s site says: “The Harry Smith Library is a 4,200-piece collection… Continue Reading
Angel Side publishing released John Gwatney’s Bringer of Light: The Making of Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising late last year. Books.Google posted this brief description: “A look at the making of Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising from 1966 – 1981. Includes… Continue Reading
There are many modern thaumaturgists who employ psychoactive substances as part of their practice, following the example of the Master Therion who used many drugs for different purposes, including ether for visionary work. When Crowley was travelling in the United… Continue Reading
Archive 81 is a series launched on Netflix last month with some tasty occult themes running through it. The brief description post along with the video trailer for the series says: “As a video archivist investigates the secrets behind a… Continue Reading