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Film review: Chemical Wedding (contains spoilers)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Dave, a British academic and magician, is the co-founding editor of JSM - The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic and is author of The History of British Magic After Crowley (Hidden Publishing, 2007) and several other books.

I’m just [...]

Perdurabo film

Monday, April 28th, 2008

While we’re on the subject of films featuring Aleister Crowley, ((See “New movie about Aleister Crowley opens May 2008” and “Chemical Wedding book to coincide with film“.) I thought I’d mention a trailer I recently stumbled across for Perdurabo, a short 40 minute film which will form the first part of a feature-length movie.
The film [...]

Chemical Wedding book to coincide with film

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Last week I posted about the release of Chemical Wedding, a new movie about Aleister Crowley that will hit theatres May 23rd, following the May 4th premiere at Sci-Fi London (tickets are available at Apollo Cinemas).
Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden front man and writer for the film, and director Julian Doyle will be self-publishing a tie-in [...]

New movie about Aleister Crowley opens May 2008

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The Chemical Wedding is a film about Aleister Crowley co-written by Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson and the film’s director Julian Doyle.
Simon Callow plays Professor Haddo, a Cambridge professor who “becomes” Aleister Crowley.
Crowley’s spirit is re-animated by a superconductor mainframe, transforming the shy and stuttering Professor Haddo (Callow) into the charismatic but sexually depraved Crowley [...]

Part II: Talking Time, An interview with Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen on the rise of Fotamecus

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen is a chaos magickian best known for his encyclopedic website Chaos Matrix and the creation Fotamecus, a sigil which evolved into a godform which manipulates the experience of time.
This interview was conducted on August 16th, 2006 for issue 4 of RazorSmile, a print-based chaos magick magazine. This is the second of a [...]

Part I: Talking Time, An interview with Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen on the rise of Fotamecus

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Fenwick Kaidevis Rysen is a chaos magickian best known for his encyclopedic website Chaos Matrix and the creation Fotamecus, a sigil which evolved into a godform which manipulates the experience of time.
This interview was conducted on August 16th, 2006 for issue 4 of RazorSmile, a print-based chaos magick magazine. This is the first of [...]