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Non less than 28 films, most of them with open, some with more concealed hermetic or esoteric messages or symbols, were shown most two weeks ago on the Start Hermetic International Movie Festival in Venice, on the 1st and the 2nd of March 2018. A week agone I shared my get-go impressions and my personal favorites, today I am back with a complete list of the 28 finalists, including a description and – if available – a trailer for each. For some films, detailed and exclusive interviews with the filmmakers are already scheduled.
Festival managing director Sara Wundersaar Ferro (Italy) and Technical Managing director Chris Weil (Germany) are happy with the outcome. The expectations take been quite high, explains Sara for NettlesGarden.com, namely to unite a wide array of different subjects and cinematic approaches in order to certificate the plethora of dissimilar perspectives in gimmicky esoterism. As the title of our festival suggests, our focus was hermeticism, but also had the explicit aim to include split-offs, parallel or even contradictory developments, as nosotros likewise witness in history. Thus, the festival tried to be open to all kinds of esoteric approaches, even if they would not look very hermetic on first sight.
The selection criteria were not only regarding the contents, i.e. how well the flick covers the topic or fits the manifesto, just besides took formal criteria into account, such as the availability of all necessary intellectual property rights.
The feedback for the festival was very positive, explains Sara, and transmits her and Chris' thanks on this way to all filmmakers, helpers, visitors and the team between the festival, who fabricated the event possible.
Meanwhile, Sara and Chris already plan the side by side edition for 1st and 2nd of March 2019. Witch Nettle already looks forward to joining again and revisit Venice. Whoever wants to submit a pic tin can practise and so on the official festival website. Besides the basic requirements for the content including an advisable cinematic and intellectual level and topical fit, intellectual property rights for all the unabridged opera, including images and sound are a necessary precondition because information technology would not exist possible otherwise to bear witness the film. English subtitles should be bachelor, to overcome language barriers, but are not mandatory for submission and selection.
And here is our list of the 28 finalists and the 10 categories for 2018:
1 Esoteric Philosophies
The festival was divided into ten categories, and it was fun to reason whether they may correspond to the sephirot of the tree of live or not. In some cases, this works smoothly, in others, such as the first category it's a bit of a challenge to find the correspondence. Anyways, all »Esoteric Philosophies« (the name of category one) try to shed lite on the very outset, »primum mobile« and the primordial. This is where Kether comes in.
FURIO JESI – MAN FROM UTOPIA
»Furio Jesi – Man from Utopia« , directed by Carlo Trombino and Claudia Martino won the Paracelsus Award for the best feature documentary at FHIFF 2018. The Italian feature-length documentary of well-nigh 60 minutes explores the life of Furio Jesi. Equally the movie was entirely in Italian the following wrap-up relies quite a bit on secondary research, but yet, I tin say the documentary seemed quite lively. Jesi was an »independent scholar« without a formal caste, writing on various topics such as Greek and Egyptian mythology, history and philology. The film explores the life of Jesi, who stemmed from a Jewish family, through the accounts of his friends and colleagues, likewise as through footage of some of the most important places in Jesi's life, such as Turin, where he was born, Palermo, where he taught towards the end of the 70s, and Genoa where he died at only 39 years quondam.
The documentary delves in the post-war history of Turin when Jesi and his colleagues were the leading cultural group in the land at the time. Colleagues and friends of Jesi, such as Gianni Vattimo, Giulio Schiavoni, Angelo D'Orsi, Claudio Vicentini, and Elisabetta Chicco, not but recount the history of that time, simply also Jesi's identify in it.
Another emphasis is made on Jesi's genius, his travels to study myths at their identify of origins, and the philosophical notions he proposed like the »mythological machine« and »wordless ideas« which are explored aslope his fascinating relationship with academic education.
While he dropped out of school at xvi, Jesi won a competition for a academy chair at the Academy of Palermo in 1975, which made him one of the final academy teachers in the land to exist appointed without a degree. The director of the film, Carlo Trombino sees this documentary as a method of documenting history outside of academic institutions, which is strongly linked to Jesi'south relationship with the academy and the history of Turin as a capital of civilization. The moving picture was entirely in Italian, without subtitles – I promise very much that they will follow.
Deeply Absurd Lucidity
»Deeply Absurd Lucidity« was the world premiere of a truly international film from Arab republic of egypt, in Standard arabic, English language, Hebrew with English subtitles, filmed in Deutschland and Egypt.
Securely Cool Lucidity is the winner of the Ficino Honor for the best editing at FHIFF 2018. The experimental short movie shot of 8 minutes runtime is directed by thespian and composer Sammy Sayed. The idea of the picture occurred to the manager while he was attending a tech-myth production workshop, out of the want to experiment with audio and visuals in order to create something aesthetically different from the commercial norms.
The result is a motion-picture show that sets a dark, tense, and surreal temper, that with its Arabic and English subtitles sets a linguistic communication of its own. That language is similar to the linguistic communication of dreams, scattered, unconscious, total of pregnant, yet stripped of it at the same fourth dimension.
The pic is shot from the perspective of an conflicting or external entity that looks inside the mind of the protagonist, who is experiencing the conscious and the unconscious simultaneously, trying to brand sense out of a rather chaotic experience consisting of symbols that affect him, such as war, organized religion, history, and mysticism.
ii The Secrets of Abracadabra
The 2nd category of films on the Commencement International Hermetic Film Festival 2022 was »The Secrets of Alchemy« and featured three films. The second Sephirah on the Tree of Life would be Chockmah and is about expansion and the creative force. An of import ingredient in alchemy most forget about.
CHRYSALIS
This was the first movie, which made me feel a real hermetic vibe on the festival. Shown as European Premiere on the FHIFF, it was featured in the category »The secrets of Abracadabra« and won the Vitrol Laurels for the all-time experimental movie .
The short color movie of about 5 minutes shows the alchemical process of transformation of an ground forces veteran getting back into civil life, embedded deeply in classical western hermetic symbolism all-time known from the Gilded Dawn tradition (and it'southward many successors) and hermetic freemasonry.
While the first office shows the soldier's descending into the blackness, the second office shows the process of transformation and rebirth in a pretty universal matter: Following a adult female in a robe making the sign of Harpocrates into the underworld accompanied by the IAO-Formula (Isis, Apophis, Osiris), the journey leads directly into the tombs. Information technology was the first fourth dimension the tombs of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California have been filmed.
The sign of Osiris the slain and Osiris the risen are self-explanatory followed by an rising into a new life, symbolized by a newborn kid exiting the tomb crying and post-obit the woman now holding the Rose-Cross. Through the Rose Cross the child is born live once more, finding itself in harmony in a green and vibrant garden.
Hollywood based artist Nic Nassuet, born Nick Ortiz-Trammell, turned out to be a bully conversation partner on a lot of occult topics. He is present mainly a Neo-folk musician, after leaving his career behind as spy for the US regular army. Thus, nosotros tin suppose, the veteran in the moving picture is Nic himself – as he also admitted for NettlesGarden.com.
Nic had been involved in film and television set since early on babyhood and continued to be agile in the acting customs, through several boards, the all-time known may be the Emmy awards committee of the National University of Tv Arts and Sciences. He appeared in several films as an player, but also as a writer or in the music department. CHRYSALIS (with caps) is an experimental short film and his first production. He was and so overnice to hand me out a copy of his debut album, "Eleutherios", which – positively – surprised me. I recommend the YouTube clips or iTunes to check.
Alchemical Chess (2016)
»Alchemical Chess« was for the first time shown in Italy at the FHIFF and screened in English with English language Subtitles. The moving-picture show from 2022 with about 8 minutes and 11 seconds was nominated for the Apuleio award for the best animation pic, Kenneth award for the all-time music video, and Jodorowsky accolade for the best topic at FHIFF 2018. Completely directed, filmed, and produced by occultist and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, Alchemical Chess is an Australian curt experimental film and music video which depicts a game of chess between alchemical symbols that experience transmutation and become something else. The music itself resembles a bit Electric current 93, with violin and characteristic speech-singing.
The game itself is a symbol of war, which easily tin can plow into a game of love. Thus, a game of change that allows the players to transcend their suffering and unite with alchemical archetypes. The ultimate matrimony of these symbols becomes the get-go condition of being, a symbol of the embryonic state of spirit in the form of a Catholic Egg.
Both video and lyrics are completely on Vimeo and can be watched below. The chess figure set used has its own website here.
Entropia (2017)
»Entropia« is one of the three winner of the Audience honor at FHIFF 2018, where information technology had its first screening in Europe. Directed by actress and director Marinah Janello, the xiv-minute and 55 seconds lasting short film from 2022 was shot in the U.s. and the story focuses on a woman's struggle with aging.
The manager summarizes the storyline every bit »A lonely woman attempts to regain her youth through her taxidermy and spell books«, which is a quite skillful fit for this horror film with Sissy O'Hara in the key cast. Having no company except for a plethora of preserved and mounted animals of all kinds around her, the woman, obviously trapped in her own mind by repetitive thoughts, engages into obscure recipes and operations in her trunk in the effort to preserve her youth, or better: to gain it dorsum.
The movie is an business relationship of one woman's entropy, or reject into chaos, triggered by her obsession with youth and dazzler, which perchance shall compensate her for her lonely and empty life. The pic's main question could be summarized as »How far would you get to plow back time?« or to stay young, and indeed, the moving-picture show oftentimes goes to the limits of aesthetics. And and so do people in general in their quest for beauty and youth.
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3 Hermetic Society
The third category on the FHIFF 2022 was »Hermetic Society«. My kickoff thoughts for this term were patently hermetic brotherhoods, such equally the Golden Dawn, the Fraternitas Saturni or at least a witchy Coven. But Binah, the Sephirah of Saturn is a form giver and sometimes a strict reminder. In this case information technology reminded me, all Hermeticism, no matter how advanced information technology may be, can be traced back to the first shamans in primitive tribes, where it received its first form. »Vestitio«, the second picture, reminded me, that most of the time, our consciousness is formed in society, no affair how much spiritual practice nosotros practise for ourselves, and that the collective reality formation taking identify in lodge is based on the very same principles.
Above and Below
The ix minute and 36-second lasting short animation moving-picture show »To a higher place and Beneath« (Hebrew: מעל ומתחת) from Israel is the thesis film of the two students Oved Poran and Liron Narunsky in the Screen based Arts department at Bezalel. Completed in 2022 the digital sound only moving-picture show was shown for the showtime fourth dimension in Italy on the FHIFF in the »Hermetic Society« category.
The pic »To a higher place and Beneath« won the Apuleio Honor for the all-time animation pic and shows very cute and in an emotional estimation the ritual burying of an old shaman woman, who farewells her tribe during a parting ritual.
Groundwork for the movie are findings of a prehistoric burial in the cave of Hilazon Tachtit, in Western Galilee in northern Israel. Scientists discovered in that location in 2008 about 25 skeletons, most of them buried together, and belonging to the Natufian civilization (12,000 – nine,000 BC) from the Levante; a transition between hunter and gathering cultures to early farmer societies.
Ane of the burials stood out, every bit it belonged to an approximately one,fifty-meter tall woman, about 45 years old. Alongside some deformations of the basic, which suggest a walking impairment since nativity, the grave appurtenances pb scientists to the conclusion that the grave belonged to a tribal shaman: not less than two weasel skulls, 50 turtle shells, the bones of an hawkeye wing, a wild boar, and even the bones of a human foot as well as a basalt-basin should accompany the shaman on her way to the otherworld.
Fifty-fifty though Leore Grosman's (University of Jerusalem) interpretation of the finding as evidence for an early on »voodoo«-cult or shaman burying have not been unchallenged (Mina Evron from the Haifa University described the interpretations equally "colorful") – the film depicts quite well the early stages of shamanism – no matter the culture.
Vestitio
»Vestitio« is the winner of the Sulphur award for the best short film at FHIFF 2018. The Italian brusque moving picture directed by Luca Tartaglia and lasts almost 16 minutes and nine seconds. The moving-picture show was screened in Italian with English subtitles and shows the moments of a rebellious leader facing the justice organisation in his public »re-education«. He is followed by a brainwashed mass belonging to a guild captivated by a manipulative and everybody equalizing government spanning the globe.
The film borrows symbols such as the AUM-sign from eastern esoterics and visualizes the spark of consciousness during this process. The brainwashed guild, which's individuals do not even realize that they are living a dream woven by someone else tin can be indeed used as a parallel for the illusional veil of Maya, which tin be lifted past enlightenment.
Hermetica Komhata HK320
The motion picture Hermetica Komhata HK320 screened likewise for the first time in Italian republic at the FHIFF. Languages were Spanish and English with English subtitles.
The approximately 1 60 minutes and 33 minutes lasting feature moving picture »Hermetica Komhata HK320« by Director Ricardo Salvador is somewhere to be situated in between metaphysical retro-Sci-Fi, experimental and surreal. The black and white film was screened in English and Spanish linguistic communication, with a bit of Enochian, made to sound Russian.
The picture show presents itself as a documentary, which tries to reconstruct a lost fictional Soviet motion picture (destroyed past the authorities) past the likewise fictitious Dr. Joseph H. Stanislaw. The latter is said to accept studied cosmic emanations with the help of Ektoplasma. Destroyed during the siege of Leningrad it was now finally possible to restore the original picture show and to release the phenomenal esoteric findings of the Soviet-era scientist.
The outcome is a combination of esoteric, spiritualistic, philosophical speculation, science fiction and experiments on humans, relying heavily on symbolism derived from hermetic and cabalistic manuscripts. Though director Ric Salvador is non a believer in whatsoever esoteric current himself, he likes to borrow the symbols to express his ain philosophical attempts. One would be the question, how to heal human defects in means alternative to the classical political or religious approaches. For example, war is seen equally a illness, existence born from detest, which belongs to the pathologies of man. A status for which neither organized religion nor law have constitute an antidote and so far.
The term ectoplasm was coined by French Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1913) Charles Robert Richet. Beside his undisputed merits in the research of medicine, he received criticism for being a proponent of Eugenics and racist views.
His various interests spanned from verse, over history and social sciences to philosophy. Notwithstanding, he spent a considerable amount of time on researching the paranormal.
In this context, he tried to explicate the possibility of mediumship in 1894 by postulating a grey-whiteish, sometimes peradventure lite pink, foaming substance called ectoplasm. Ectoplasm was thought to be a real, fabric substance stemming from the medium itself and opposed to typical spiritistic ideas (ghosts), which would exist involved in many spiritistic phenomena such as materializations. Usually very sensible to light information technology could be barely observed, except for darkened rooms.
Ectoplasm did non make it into science. And then far all evidences were institute to be not apparent or even fraudulent. However, ectoplasm made information technology into pop civilisation (Ghostbusters) and into spiritistic and fifty-fifty some occult literature effectually the showtime of the 20th century.
Important for Komhata HK320 is, that Dr. Joseph H. Stanislaw studied the »influence of catholic emanations on the human listen, through his experiments with a film of Ectoplasmic sensitivity«.
I enjoyed the picture show a lot, which during the festival won the Mercure Award for the best picture, the Eco Award for the all-time research and the Jodorowsky Accolade for the best topic. Likewise, coming together with the coiffure of the moving picture at the afterparty turned out to exist worthwhile and enjoyable. A fun fact is that during the motion picture, some sound samples supposed to exist Russian actually incorporate Enochian, the angelic language known from 16th-century occultist John Dee. The team readily admitted that they establish it only easier than learning the Russian grammar, which I can confirm comes not always in handy. From an occult point of view, a expert choice anyways 😀
Stella Erratica
»Stella Erratica« was nominated for the Vitriol Award for the best experimental film and the Atalanta award for the best music at FHIFF 2018, where it too had its Italian premiere. The 9 minutes and 25 seconds lasting motion-picture show directed past Ben Barton was shot in the UK and screened in English language.
The film had a budget of an estimated £3,000, merely was lucky to use requisites from David Bowie'due south "Blackstar" music video. Mitt-editing was used to obtain the vintage fashion of the movie, which otherwise is meliorate to be described as scientific discipline fiction. The picture's vintage visual effects await authentic.
The sci-fi experimental motion-picture show had its premiere at the Cannes moving picture festival and shows the journey of an astronaut to a afar planet, which seems lonely and vast. The just »hermetic moment« is probably the appearance of a unicursal hexagram, equally probably near popularized through Aleister Crowley's »Thelema«. However, the question whether we are lone in space or if the real monsters are actually already among us remains interesting.
4 Kabbalah and Artifact
The quaternary category of the festival was »Kabbalah and Artifact« – it is easy to relate this to Chesed, the 4th Sephirah, every bit Jupiter is the order bringing principle. Only as the Kabbalah and the esoteric currents of antiquity gave an gild to all occult knowledge until today.
Niggun
Nominated for the Apuleio award for the all-time animation pic and the Atalanta award for the best music at FHIFF 2018, Niggun is a short second animation picture show from Israel directed by Yoni Salmon. The film is entirely in Hebrew and was screened with English subtitles. In the 12 minutes and 25 seconds lasting motion picture, a Rabbi and an Archaeologist from the faraway future each search for their place of origin, Earth.
They only find fragments of it that survived in the grade of symbols, one of which is the city of Jerusalem, which the Rabbi was hopeful of finding. The name of the picture show, Niggun, refers to the religious Jewish song of worship which may hint towards the ideal the 2 characters are looking for that just like music, is not found in matter, but it is just equally real and acts on a physical level.
The style of animation aslope the subtle reference to a spiritual enlightenment is representative of the innocence and naivety of someone who seeks the answers already within them somewhere at their origins or outside of them, in the material earth. The picture treats the Kabbalah from a traditional Jewish, religious perspective, but the symbolism in the film is deep and intentional. »I am a religious jew and I discover significant in animation and pop-culture« declared Yoni Salmon for NettlesGarden.com and we agreed to follow upward shortly with an interview on the similarities and differences between the traditional Jewish and the occidental, hermetic Kabbalah. Meanwhile, we strongly recommend the extensive official website for the flick.
SHIVTA (2018)
»Shivta« is notwithstanding some other film from Israel, the winner of the Audience accolade and Black Lion award for the best web series at FHIFF 2018, where it had its Italian premiere. The brusk experimental student motion-picture show was shot in Israel and is directed by Or Meir Schraiber, who also appears in the key cast.
The genre of the film can be best described as experimental, dance and musical short picture show without dialogues and shows two dancing travelers in »Shivta« , the ruins of an sometime city on the onetime spice route in the »Negev desert« of southern State of israel. Shivta belongs since 2005 to the UNESCO Earth Heritage and may have been a Nabataean town from biblical times or a Byzantine colony.
Accordingly, the movie explores the journey of the two dancers in the desert, after a strange door appears out of nowhere or »similar a Fata-morgana«. travelers who are tempted past a delusion in the desert which comes in the form of Fata-Morgana. After inbound the door, they find themselves on the site of Shivta, under the musical spell of an oriental fortune teller.
Agadah
»Agadah« (2017) is an Italian gamble film of 126 minutes length in French, Italian, Spanish and was screened with English Subtitles. Equally I am not very into experimental movies or movies per se, this was probably the pic I enjoyed the virtually.
The name itself is derived from the cabalistic term Aggadah , which means story, lore, legend, saying or collection. Often it refers to a collection of (rabbinic) texts, which are based on binding doctrines (the Torah or Talmud for case), but non bounden doctrines themselves, and illustrate morals, communication, and teachings on all matters of life in historic or folkloric anecdotes.
The film, by director Alberto Rondalli, sometimes also named an 18th-century Decameron, is based loosely on the French novel »The Manuscript Found in Saragossa« by Polish author Count Jan Potocki .
The film starts showing Count Potocki writing his novel, while a young Bourbon officer decides to cross the haunted Murge plateau, or »Altopiano delle Murge« in Italian, to achieve his regiment on the way to Naples.
The journey is divided in 10 days, which correlate to the ten sephiroth of the cabalistic tree of life (the book features 66 days) and mark a cycle of initiation into a secret society, probably masonry, as Potocki was a mason himself.
The 10 days – and particularly nights – are total of unusual happenings and encounters, floating betwixt the real world and the world of dreams, featuring erotic encounters with Mohammedan princesses, which turn out to be demons, meetings with cabalists or adventures in a gypsy camp.
The movie ends with the death of the novelist, who committed suicide in the very same mode as Count Jan Potocki killed himself in 1815. At the FHIFF »Agadah« won the Caduceus Award for the all-time feature film.
5 Gnosis: Good vs Evil
The fifth category on the FHIFF was »Gnosis: Good vs. Evil« and featured ane of my favorite films – »Metanoia, Metanoia«. For the ancient Gnostic, her spiritual quest was a struggle, and equally such – information technology may be piece of cake to relate it to Geburah, the fifth Sephirah, ruled by the planet of Mars.
METANOIA, METANOIA
»Metanoia, Metanoia« had its European premiere at the FHIFF and was nominated for the Agrippa accolade for the best director and the Sulphur award for the best brusk film. The 15-infinitesimal lasting movie was directed by filmmaker Joshua Alexander Matteo and shot in the United States. Equally already mentioned in my final postal service, this movie was one of my favorites.
The motion picture is fascinating in many regards. While the plot itself can be told before long, the various layers of meaning fastened to the moving picture cannot. And then first the plot: a young woman discovers three chests in the woods and henceforth wanders New York City experiencing frightening and strange situations, in a music but flick, with the atmosphere of classic Italian horror movies.
Indeed, director Matteo's initial intention was to create a horror or fantasy thriller, Italian fashion such as the movie »Inferno« past Dario Argento'southward (the second movie of the Three Mothers trilogy).
Still, during his enquiry, Matteo came into contact with the world of Gnosticism. And while the plot remained the same, he started to add various gnostic symbols to it, based on a real sound inquiry, which made me determine to feature before long an entire stand-lonely article on the picture »Metanoia, Metanoia« , its mythological background and the director'southward thought virtually information technology. Anyways, permit'south go on on with the curt version for today.
Already the title of the movie »Metanoia« refers to the aim of all Gnosis. Normally translated every bit change, atonement, spiritual conversion or repentance, this aboriginal Greek expression in Gnosis besides referred to the liberation from the flesh'south sin and the return of the divine spark out of »Kenoma«, the empty, physical world, into the shining sea of light »Pleroma«, the realm of the true God. It can be thus compared to what Eastern religions telephone call »enlightenment« and the liberation from »Samsara« and this is indeed besides the short interpretation of Matteo for his film: »Condign Enlighted, fearing the unknown, and making a leap of religion to move on into the next earth« as he declares for NettlesGarden.com. Without a good knowledge of Gnostic symbolism, this may be still difficult to discover, after all, the footage is seemingly a thriller.
For the film, Matteo sought inspiration and motifs from »The Hymn of the Pearl«, the Archons, and mainly Sophia. But he inspired himself also by the Eleusinian mysteries – »not quite Gnostic«, equally he admits further in a recent chat.
Otherwise, the film sticks strictly to the symbolism. Even the boxes the young woman and protagonist of the film finds, contain real Gnostic artifacts: a money of Abraxas and a chart of Sophia from the »Undercover Symbols of the Rosicrucians« book.
For the managing director, the moving picture brought him into contact with Gnosticism in a life-changing fashion, every bit he says. Not being an organized faith, information technology is something he tin resonate with, and now (re-)discovers everywhere. My have on this: How not?! Gnosticism, after all, is one of the most important spiritual and cultural heritage nosotros have in the Occident, being rooted in classical antiquity, a vibrant part of early Christianity until the middle ages, and since then continuing to alive in alchemical and occult traditions of the due west, with huge impact on theosophy, Rosicrucians and all other currents thereof and even the psychology of C.G. Jung. Parallels to Buddhism are striking.
Just allow the states cease this review for now with some trivia, every bit narrated by the director: »The Hymn of the Pearl speaks about how we are all divine calorie-free that has forgotten this when we came into this earth. We must claim the pearl from the dragon and call back our divine origin to return to the light. I was surprised by this because I had already styled by archon with a pearl! This became a perfect plot device«.
Joshua Matteo was and then nice to grant an sectional permission To NettlesGarden.com to show the Yard Central scene, so you can notice the symbols on your ain.
To Help the Human Heart (2017)
»To Help the Homo Eye« , the winner of the Agrippa honour for the all-time director at FHIFF 2018, where it was screened for the first time in Italy, in Spanish language with English subtitles. »Ayudar al ojo humano« , the original Spanish picture show and project title, is a feature film shot in Spain and Republic of india, directed by Velasco Broca and Julian Genisson. The film with a total runtime of 1 hour and 23 minutes is constructed equally an anthology consisting iii short films: »New Altar« and »Dioses Autonomicos« by Velasco Broca, and »The Mugging Nurse« by Julian Genisson.
The story follows a priest whose Spanish grandad, also a priest, was cursed in Bharat in the early on 20th century. The curse would follow his descendants, including his grandson, who experiences exile and surrenders to the Atlantic Ocean.
In his initiatic journey triggered by this expletive, the priest has to face a serial of symbolic antagonists, such as archons, insects, wizards, thugs, and even the Devil in a stylized picture show that arranged these symbols to etch a dramatic and surreal dream-like visual.
6 Healing and Science
The sixth category on the FHIFF 2022 was »Healing and Science«. And indeed, both films in this category showed pop attempts to somehow reconcile esoteric thinking, healing and science. As Tiphareth, the sixth Sephirah of Synthesis, nosotros may become with the numbering.
Thou Tour Omeopatitco
»One thousand Tour Omeopatico« is the special mention winner at FHIFF 2018. The Italian documentary of about 1 hour runtime directed by Giovanna Poldi Allai follows the journey of the principal of "The enkindling of the healer" schoolhouse of homeopathy, Annalisa Adami and homeopath Nathanael Schwartz.
Primary Annalisa Adami is an Italian woman who became a successful homeopathy practitioner, Guru, and healer in Berlin, Federal republic of germany. Through the lessons she shares in this documentary, the audience is able to acquire a deeper agreement of her healing practice and gain insight into her healer's way of life and the journeying she makes.
The colorful footage of her journeying in places similar Italian republic and Bali, introduces the audience to an exotic culture focused on health and healing which doesn't look at alternative medicine as a one-time solution, only as a way of living a simple life consciously in gratitude and joy.
For me, personally, the film is a reminder how old hermetic ideas carry on to live in modern alternative lifestyle approaches, even though, in homeopathic doses.
Vibration: Symphony of Life
The special mention winner at FHIFF 2018, Vibration: »The Symphony of Life« is a documentary filmed in the United Stated and directed by Justin Wilkinson. The documentary had its European premiere at the Hermetic Film Festival 2022 in Venice. Lasting virtually an hour (58 minutes), the documentary is an attempt to notice place esoteric ideas in a scientific image with »vibrations«, which are declared a »law«.
Thus, the documentary features various experts who explain how vibration can affect our physical bodies, hearts, and how it tin can also affect us mentally. Learning about how vibration works can potentially help people to utilise it in order to attain happiness, spiritual enlightenment and more than. This synthesis of scientific discipline and mysticism is said to exist able to produce practical applications for those who want to make good use of vibration in their lives, and some of these techniques are presented in the documentary.
"The Symphony of Life" in the title refers to how one'southward individual vibration participates in the "greater symphony of life", by receiving and transmitting notes and frequencies that modify their state of existence. Beingness conscious of this tin can not only rising one's individual vibration but as well contribute in rising the earth's vibration. A trailer is available beneath, while the total video can be purchased on the film's website.
7 Religious Strains
The seventh category on the festival »Religious strains« had a strong focus on the East, this twelvemonth. The showtime film »The Blacksmith« is a spiritual journey into Ukraine, while the second film, »Christ/el« contains at least a few memories of Eastern Germany. The third flick finally, shows a rare religious ritual from Armenia. The relation to the seventh sephirah, Netzach, ruled by Venus, came to me via the principle of aesthetics. There was a lot of beauty in »The Blacksmith« and »The Elegy in Light«.
The Blacksmith
The German language xxx-minute film »The Blacksmith« by directors Ivan Andrianov and Nina Gudme was filmed in Ukraine, had its Italian premiere at the FHIFF in Venice (World premier was at Cannes Film Festival) and screened in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Both directors are students at the Flick University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Germany.
Located on the Ukrainian countryside around Kiev blacksmith Sergey explains his worldview to his student while teaching him the procedure of hammering and forging as they create a new piece of work on the anvil.
Non only their working style and the environment is rural but fix in a phase which so far has suffered picayune exposure to mod lifestyle. Likewise, the mentality is in many regards nonetheless untouched past mod life. One of the most obvious scenes in this regard is the Blacksmith's comments about his feeling of time and the right timing. The entire surroundings, starting with the landscape and ending with the people and their lifestyle merge perfectly well with what for the most western ears is archaic sound, but which in many parts of Eastern Europe nevertheless is traditional popular music.
The directors intent was to show the »closed, rich and worldwide unknown culture of Ukraine … revealing its essence of strength and resistance«. I enjoyed the music and the rural images a lot, it reminded me frequently of Transylvania before joining the EU. This makes some sense, both Romania and Ukraine share a part of the Carpathians.
The film won the Atalanta Award for the all-time music at the FHIFF.
CHRIST/EL (A.Grützner)
»Christ/el« was nominated for the Pelican laurels for the best short documentary and the Rosenkreuz laurels for the best foreign documentary at FHIFF 2018. The curt German documentary is directed by independent filmmaker, Andreas Grutzner, filmed in Super8 shooting format and featuring footage from 1975-1977 tapes.
The story explores for 8 minutes and 39 seconds the world of a immature boy, his family unit life, and his memories of coming of age, merely mainly evolving effectually questions regarding belief. Director Andreas Grützner reflects various attempts during his life to observe his home in Christianity, but is also in a large function, a reflection on his parents and their relation to belief. Accordingly, the title»Christ/el« refers with the first part to someone who is a Christian, and if read entirely to the proper name Christel,his female parent. The ironic signal of the short film is that latter had been a strict laic all her life merely died every bit a doubter (or maybe just kept the secret of her belief so hermetically well).
Elegy in Light
Winner of the Rosenkreuz honor for the best foreign documentary, »Elegy in Light« is a brusque documentary with 10 minutes runtime directed by Zareh Tjeknavorian in Armenia. The ethnographic film contains footage that documented the funeral of Catholicos Vazgen I, the Supreme Patriarch of All Armenians, who died on August eighteen, 1994.
An important figure in their civilization, Vazgen I dedicated much of his life to renewing aboriginal Armenian churches and attempted to reunite both wings of Armenian Christianity. The movie shows the »rarely seen rite of the Armenian Church with the sound of monastic ritual dirge« (Zareh Tjeknavorian) which is a passing ceremony that interprets the soul's metamorphosis and transition into the next globe.
This makes it a valuable insight into Armenian Christian culture. Additionally, the film leaves an impression on how nosotros think our history and meditate on life and decease while also preserving what is left of "Near Eastern religious tradition" that dates back to the early 4th century.
8 Magic and Witchcraft
This category featured 3 films: »Left Mitt Path«, which was shown for the first time outside of Canada, »Modern Craft« and »Jenny loves Satan«, which were shown for the commencement time in Italy. For me, they were patently among the nigh interesting films on the festival. Being the eighth category, we can chronicle it to Hod, the Sephirah of Mercure and Hermes, the androgyne fathers of our craft.
Left Hand Path (2017),
One of my favorites during this FHIFF edition was »Left Hand Path« by Jessica Hall . A documentary featuring the Setian religion of James Carman Kirby. James was an creative person from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and Magister Templi in the Temple of Set up until his death, in late autumn 2017. As far every bit Nic Nassuet told me, James died on Halloween, subsequently a long illness, and as it seems on his ain terms. So basically he died the aforementioned way equally he had lived his life.
Kirby was a creator of fine jewelry in gold and silverish, as well every bit other rare and precious materials such as gemstones, or ivory. Even so, he did not work with any animal material with the exception of fossilized Woolly Mammoth Ivory and dinosaur os. In the motion picture, while working on one of his unique pieces of jewelry James C. Kirby explains the philosophy backside »black magick« as understood past him and probably many members of the Temple of Set. The documentary also shows him in his ceremonial magick altar space, which he explains with the words:
»… So when we do ritual, we deed as gods. That's the purpose of ritual, to brand conscious changes to your life, in a very direct way. You're speaking to yourself through yourself, to your highest self. This is my chantry and every Setian's altar will be different. You don't need an altar, y'all don't have to have one. I come up from a ritual magic background from Thelema. So I similar the ritual aspects of having an altar…«
This was the international premiere of the 14-minute curt picture show and documentary from Canada, filmed in Canada, directed by Jessica Hall. The movie is in English language and has English subtitles, which come in quite welcome in certain passages, such as in the part where a lot of specialty lingo in Greek or Egyptian is used. »Left Hand Path« won the Pelican Accolade for the best (short) documentary at the FHIFF.
Mod Arts and crafts
»Modern Craft« is a short documentary with squeamish, witchy imagery and atmosphere, which opposite to the suggestive film poster and a big part of the scenery does not want to farther spread prejudices almost witchcraft. Rather, it is manager's Jessica P. Jackson'southward aim to decompose stereotypes and to demystify Wicca by showing what it really is: a peaceful and non-offensive religion. Honestly, I have no idea whether she succeeds or not, having been an occultist almost all my life since babyhood. I do not encounter the problem which some outsiders may have with Wicca in the beginning identify.
Anyways, during the roughly eleven-minute lasting short-film, the spectator comes in touch with Wicca through a Wiccan High-priestess, a immature newcomer Wiccan and a Christian, who is studying this neo-infidel faith. The Loftier Priestess, Lady Passion, is a tertiary-degree Gardnerian Elder in the Californian Line and High Priestess of Coven Oldenwilde in Asheville, NC.
By real name Dixie Deerman and of Northern Irish ancestry, Lady Passion has been a »public witch« since 1976, counsels clients since 1979, focuses on herbal medicines, divinations, merely is also a registered nurse since the belatedly 1980ies. She wrote a full of four books and then far: Candle Magic; Simply Savory: Magical & Medieval Recipes; Ask-A-Priestess: Wise Answers From a Real Witch; and last only non least: Pagan Prisoner Advocate's Guide.
The Pic from the United States was screened in English, filmed in the Us and had its premiere in Italy on the FHIFF.
Jenny loves Satan (2017)
»Jenny Loves Satan« is a short film of 14 minutes and 21 seconds. The movie was produced past the University of Southern California and realized past students: Jenna Bryant every bit Director, Paul Jones as author; Nikolaj Wejp-Olsen and Ricardo Salinas as producers.
The 12-yr sometime teenager Jenny, played by Leah Black, decides to become Satanist inside an act of well-through-thought rebellion:
»I know that y'all are merely just a representation of human'south carnal nature and a symbolic rejection of false deities« sounds Jenny's satanic prayer in her penumbrous children-room, set against the background of a wall with pink wallpapers. »I didn't think you were real…« she adds.
Merely soon she will find out, that her »symbolical rejection of imitation deities« quickly exposes and overburdens the quite limited capacities of many in the earth around her. Not only other kids at school, who much her, but »rational« adults, such equally parents and a instructor at the schoolhouse, which lets her know, that religious liberty is for everyone, except for Satanists.
During the pic, Satan hears Jenny's call and appears – played by Julia Kern – to offer help. I laughed and enjoyed the moving picture then much. Perhaps because it compensated me post-hoc for all the experiences with irrational teachers, and other themselves well-educated deeming persons in society I had to deal with when I was the aforementioned age every bit Jenny. I am non certain if this was what the filmmakers were thinking about while filming »Jenny Loves Satan« , simply information technology is my take on the film, which won the Audience Award on the FHIFF 2018.
9 Spritism and Rituals
The 9th category of the FHIFF 2022 dealt mostly with spiritism this twelvemonth, and »Spiritism and Rituals« tin be related to Yesod, the sephirah of the moon, subconscious and dreams.
The strange case of Emily Grey (2016)
The Italian brusque horror moving-picture show of 9 minutes and 44 seconds in color and Full HD was screened in English with Italian subtitles.
Information technology shows spiritistic medium Emily Greyness during a seance, in which she breaks the circle due to the unprofessionalism of the attendees. Still, as a upshot, she gets into trouble with an evil spirit which was attracted during the seance.
Peradventure what is most interesting about the story is that it differs from typical "seance" based film in that, in this story, the entity starts haunting Emily, the experienced spiritist, and not some unassuming victim who was a mere participant in a séance conducted by someone else, who is often, left untouched.
The director Luigi Parisi is a declared lover of fantasy, horror movies and thrillers and names Hitchcock and Polansky amongst his favorites. Main inspiration, however, were the Italians Dario Argento and Mario Bava. The motion picture »The foreign case of Emily Grey« was nominated for the »Sulphur« Honor for the best brusque moving-picture show and for the »Black-Lion« laurels.
Holy Terrors (2017)
»Holy Terrors« or »Six Weird Tales by Arthur Machen« is a digital feature film from the United Kingdom, for the first time shown in Italy and directed by Marking Goodall and Julian Butler. Best described with the genres Horror, Supernatural and Ghost stories the about ane hour and 14 minutes lasting film is mostly blackness and white simply has also some scenes in color.
A detailed review with an extensive background is available hither at folkhorrorrevival.com, but allow's give a short overview and some words about Arthur (Jones) Machen'due south relation to the occult and the hermetic sciences: Born 1863 in Wales equally Arthur Llewellyn Jones, the after »Machen« became a popular writer of fantastic and horror stories, who influenced among others H.P Lovecraft. Notwithstanding, he was also a member of The Hermetic Guild of the Golden Dawn but seemed to prefer the safe haven of the Anglican church in the long-run.
Nevertheless, he had been a close friend with A.E. Waite and the interest in the occult and supernatural have been a constant in both his life and work. The literary breakthrough in 1894 came with the horror novel »The Great God Pan« on the coexistence of the existent world and a mythological Celtic-roman parallel-earth. Fifty-fifty though Machen is said to have been a downwards-to-earth person, who would not just readily believe in the supernatural, mythology and the fantastic always remained a abiding in his writings.
The picture captures the elegiac style of his stories, was well received by fans and won the Special Mention Honor at the FHIFF 2018.
The Tale of the Idiot (2017)
»The Tale of the Idiot« is an Italian experimental curt flick of 35 minutes directed past Seth Morley. The film re-interprets and tells the story of the Idiot, a character from a science fiction novel, »More than Human« by Theodore Sturgeon, which inspired the movie. »The Tale of the Idiot« had its Italian Premiere at the FHIFF and was screened with English language subtitles. The picture is winner of the special mention accolade at FHIFF 2018.
In the book, the Idiot has never experienced existent homo connection, despite the fact that he has telepathic abilities. In the picture, Evelin lives in an isolated home with her begetter and sister and since her female parent died, no one left or entered the property.
Her story is that of coming of age in a sterile environment, enkindling a desire for freedom and exploration inside her. While this is happening, the Idiot leaves his home behind in order to seek a girl he has met in his dreams.
10 Myth and Demons
The tenth category was Myth and demons. While the film »Hellsaga« revives old Norse and Icelandic mythology, we run across in the film »TAU« a daemon in the original sense of the word. Maybe the 10th category »Myth and Demons« relates to Malkuth, the earthly Sephirah of manifestation, because »Hellsaga« is a prime case of how earthly the aboriginal gods in many pantheons actually were. And with »TAU«, we meet a daemon walking the world, and commenting the life in a modern metropolis.
Hellsaga
»Hellsaga« or »A Swedish Viking Saga « is a 12-minute color-short flick by director Viking Almquist from Sweden, and was screened in Swedish with English language subtitles on the FHIFF.
For the showtime time shown in Italy, we could see the story of »a young warrior [who] seeks the wisdom of the gods« in this historical gamble film from 2017.
The picture claims to be"based on the Poetic Edda, a tale of magic and myth". What we see is a Wanderer without a name (played by Viking Almquist himself), ambivalent with a »black viking«, seeking advice from his mother, meeting a troll in the wood, talking to the dead at the beach before meeting over again with the Black Viking for the final boxing…
We see some runes and the see with the troll in the woods seems very much inspired by the classic battles of knowledge in riddle form between Odin and the giants. In detail, it reminded me of the run across between Odin and Vafthruthnir in the Vafthruthnirmol.
Also in other regards, the film incorporated historical references to archeological Viking findings, such as the helmet of the Black Viking and the horns of troll.
Thrill over Fearfulness
Winner of the Kenneth award for the all-time music video at FHIFF 2018, »Thrill Over Fright« is a Greek music video of the music duo A Menstruum Mobz, directed by John Katehis. The video'due south accent is on facing fears and challenges without existence contradistinct by the battle against them.
The main symbol nowadays in the video is the serpent-headed gorgon Medusa, who in the Greek myths was able to petrify with her look and plough people into stone. Given the myth and the visuals of Medusa being petrified herself in the video, it would be interesting to assume that she was petrified past her own eyes, which would be a great metaphor for facing inner demons.
Ultimately, the stone cracks and she is experiencing a form of "enlightenment", which means that she was able to overcome the paralyzing upshot of her fears. The other imagery in the video suggests that outside the inner struggles, there are bigger challenges, just winning over inner battles is one step closer to winning the entire war.
TAU, the daemon and the metropolis
»TAU, the Daemon and the City« was the terminal motion-picture show shown on the 2018 edition of the FHIFF and won 3 awards: The Fludd Honour for the best cinematography, the Cagliostro Honor for the all-time storytelling and the Jury Award. It was screened in Catalan with English subtitles and had its international premiere on the FHIFF.
»Tau is, at once, a fiction film on spirits, a documentary on the passing of time in a small town and a portrait of Catalan traditional culture«. The spectator witnesses a fictional portrait of the Catalan city Taragonna, shown through the eyes of a daemon, living in a parallel globe, which is both transcending and surrounding our human globe.
The slightly over two hours lasting moving-picture show (123 minutes) is comprised of erstwhile footage director Gerard Gil collected during the last years, during a time, while he was besides working as a cameraman for TV in his hometown.
Or every bit Gerard Gil declares for NettlesGarden.com:
»I ofttimes establish myself in a situation where I had to picture some images for a program and, meanwhile, I noticed the really interesting images where happening bated. But I couldn't movie them at that moment, since I was working for tv. The flick came afterwards, going to the streets on my own, with no preconceptions on what to film, and being completely complimentary with the camera.
It actually took several years of going out to the street in this way to get the footage for the film.«
The story, or voice over, was directly dictated to him by the daemon itself after Gerard had read Plotin's Enneads. »Information technology'due south hard to say whether we accept ideas or ideas have us« asks the director of TAU, commenting his piece of work and the process of its creation.
A good question, to stop a picture show festival around the Hermetic tradition, which owns then much to the works of the Platonists.
Source: https://www.theoldcraft.com/blog/
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