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Film - Rites of Eleusis
I just got this notice so am passing it on to all and sundry who might fancy going along to it. Last performance of these in London was in about 1990, and each rite was performed by a different magical group in existence at the time. A very sexy volume was produced at the end, as I recall. Me, I was a very junior priestess in the Rite of Saturn. Sort of a spear-carrier role, third on the left.... There were floods of Swinburne and Zachary Cox dashing around the stage very dramatically, as I recall. At any rate, the latest is an avant-garde film series, by an American chap visiting the UK. Anyone going, do let me know, I am thinking about popping along myself. -- Christina
Raymond Salvatore Harmon presents
Aleister Crowley's Rites of Eleusis
a 3 channel occult video performance
Friday March 7th 2008 - 9pm
The Horse Hospital, London
Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the union of Miss Leila Waddell and Mr Aleister Crowley.
Experimental media artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon will present a live improvised set of 7 films. Each based on the individual rituals in British occultist Aleister Crowley's Rites of Eleusis, first presented in Caxton Hall, London in 1910. Crowley based the rituals of Rites of Eleusis on each of the seven classical planets of antiquity - "Saturn", "Jupiter", "Mars", "Sol" (the Sun), "Venus", "Mercury" and "Luna". Utilizing the entire text of Crowley's rites as subliminal content Harmon will improvise the abstract layers of imagery to a prepared score. Presented in a 3 channel video environment Rites of Eleusis promises to be an updated public occult ritual for the 21st century. Harmon's previous occult filmworks have been widely regarded as pioneering in the field of occult/transcendental cinema. His treatise Transcendental Cinema (available from GreyLodge Occult Review here: www.greylodge.org/ebooks/Transcendental_
The Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD. Tel. 020 78333644
thehorsehospital.com raymondharmon.com myspace.com/raymondsalvatoreharmon
I just got this notice so am passing it on to all and sundry who might fancy going along to it. Last performance of these in London was in about 1990, and each rite was performed by a different magical group in existence at the time. A very sexy volume was produced at the end, as I recall. Me, I was a very junior priestess in the Rite of Saturn. Sort of a spear-carrier role, third on the left.... There were floods of Swinburne and Zachary Cox dashing around the stage very dramatically, as I recall. At any rate, the latest is an avant-garde film series, by an American chap visiting the UK. Anyone going, do let me know, I am thinking about popping along myself. -- Christina
Raymond Salvatore Harmon presents
Aleister Crowley's Rites of Eleusis
a 3 channel occult video performance
Friday March 7th 2008 - 9pm
The Horse Hospital, London
Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the union of Miss Leila Waddell and Mr Aleister Crowley.
Experimental media artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon will present a live improvised set of 7 films. Each based on the individual rituals in British occultist Aleister Crowley's Rites of Eleusis, first presented in Caxton Hall, London in 1910. Crowley based the rituals of Rites of Eleusis on each of the seven classical planets of antiquity - "Saturn", "Jupiter", "Mars", "Sol" (the Sun), "Venus", "Mercury" and "Luna". Utilizing the entire text of Crowley's rites as subliminal content Harmon will improvise the abstract layers of imagery to a prepared score. Presented in a 3 channel video environment Rites of Eleusis promises to be an updated public occult ritual for the 21st century. Harmon's previous occult filmworks have been widely regarded as pioneering in the field of occult/transcendental cinema. His treatise Transcendental Cinema (available from GreyLodge Occult Review here: www.greylodge.org/ebooks/Transcendental_
The Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD. Tel. 020 78333644
thehorsehospital.com raymondharmon.com myspace.com/raymondsalvatoreharmon
